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User:DStorey

2007-07-18T13:22:54Z

DStorey:

*Name: David Storey
*Company: Opera Software
*Title: Chief Web Opener, Developer Relations Team Lead.
*Blog: [http://my.opera.com/dstorey Slightly.ajar]
*eMail: dstorey /at/ my company name dot com
*microformats post: [http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/2007/06/10/microformats-on-opera-sites Microformats in Opera]

hcalendar-examples-in-wild

2007-06-29T19:49:34Z

DStorey: /* New Examples */

<h1>hCalendar Examples in the wild</h1>

This page is an '''informative''' section of the [[hcalendar|hCalendar specification]].

The following sites have published events using [[hcalendar|hCalendar]], and thus are a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc.

If events on your site are marked up with hCalendar, feel free to add it to the top of this list. Please be sure to include at least one URL of a page on your site that includes actual [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] markup. Examples added without the URL of a page with hCalendar markup may be removed.

Want to get started with writing an [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] event? Use the [http://microformats.org/code/hcalendar/creator hCalendar creator] to write up an event and publish it, or follow the [[hcalendar-authoring|hCalendar authoring tips]] to add hCalendar markup to your page of upcoming events or events you mention in blog posts, wikis, etc.

Don't forget that you can add one of our [[buttons#hCalendar|buttons]] to the page, to indicate the presence of hCalendar microformats. For example: http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcalendar.png. If you can link it back to [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] (or even page on your website, about your use of the microformat), so much the better!

==New Examples==

Please add new examples to the '''top''' of this section.
* [http://my.opera.com/Kilimanjaro07/blog/ My Opera] uses hCalendar to mark-up Countdowns in blog/group sidebars.
* [http://www.nensa.net/sched&result/racing_index.php New England Nordic Ski Association's Calendar] marked up in hCalendar.
* [http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/events/ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Events section] supports hCalendar.
* [http://hope-international.com/fundraising/07_springdinners.html HOPE International's Spring Fundraising Dinner Events] marked up in hCalendar.
* [http://www.brewerdesigngroup.com/barcamp-hcalendar.html The schedule for BarCamp San Diego] marked up in hCalendar.
* [http://2007.xtech.org/public/schedule/full The schedule for XTech 2007] uses hCalendar.
* [http://www.seemsartless.com seemsArtless daily photoblog] - embeds hCalendar markup for each photo, with GEO markup for photos with significant geographic locations ( such as with [http://www.seemsartless.com/index.php?pic=348 this photo] )
* [http://www.ischool.washington.edu/ Information School of the University of Washington] - now embeds hCalendar markup on all of it's events
** Example here: [http://www.ischool.washington.edu/events/calendar.aspx Events Calendar]
* [http://playinghere.com/ Playing Here] uses hCalendar for live music shows in America, [http://playinghere.com/2007/07/07/CA/Los_Angeles/The_Hollywood_Bowl/ e.g.]
* [http://www.thsh.co.uk THSH] uses iCalendar for events at Town Hall Birmingham and Symphony Hall Birmingham
* [http://www.anfsusa.org/ America-Nepal Friendship Society] uses hCalendar for its program events
** Example here: [http://www.anfsusa.org/news/programs-projects/ ANFS: Programs & Projects]
* [http://www.friendsofthechildrenny.org/ Friends of the Children, New York] - uses hCalendar for upcoming fundraising events
** Example here: [http://www.friendsofthechildrenny.org/events.html Events]
* [http://www.depechemode.de www.depechemode.de] - uses hCalendar for events in the party guide
** Example here: [http://www.depechemode.de/parties/show-party.php?cat=1 Depeche Mode Parties]
* [http://last.fm last.fm] - uses hCalendar on all concert announcements.
** Example here: [http://www.last.fm/event/75615 Rise Against at Arena, Wien]
* [http://www.radiotimes.com Radio Times] - now mark up all their radio and TV listings.
**The hCals on listings are good, but on pages for individual programmes, they have no date/times - for instance [http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=56&programmeId=57876521&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details_fullpage.jsp]
** Would benefit from using [[include-pattern]] for channel name in main listings. This would facilitate the writing of parsers to set audio or video recording software. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://nederlandskamerkoor.nl Dutch Chamber Choir] uses hCalendar to notify visitors of their tour schedule.
* [http://cloudislands.com Cloud Islands] uses hCalendar to notify our customers about the conferences we'll be attending.
* [http://www.international.unt.edu UNT International] uses hCalendar for events (see esp. [http://www.international.unt.edu/offices/welcome/events/intlweek/calendar International Week 2007 Event Calendar])
* [http://www.rockisland.com/%7elopezmuseum/index.html The Lopez Island Historical Society and Museum] uses hCalendar for events
* [http://futureofwebapps.com/schedule.html Future of Web Apps London] lists its schedule in hcalendar.
* [http://leicesteryha.org.uk/cgi-bin/leoprog Leicester YHA Group's programme page] uses hCalendar and hCard to mark up forthcoming events and their organisers.
* [http://www.wadip.org.uk/pages/events.php Wadhurst Independent Photography events] lists forthcoming events in hCalendar format.
* [http://xlntads.com/about-xlntads/development-schedule.php XLNTads-development schedule] has their project development schedule timeline marked up in hcal (as well as contacts in hCard)
* [http://www.jaama.co.uk Jaama] have their event details as iCal downloads on their [http://www.jaama.co.uk/HS_Seminars.aspx workshops] page.
* [http://3amproductions.net 3AM Productions] has employee education ([http://3amproductions.net/jason.php Jason], [http://3amproductions.net/gilbert.php Gilbert]) marked up in hCalendar
* The [http://neatta.org New England Antique Tractor & Truck Association] (of all sites) has their 15 upcoming events marked up in hCalendar (as well as contacts in hCard and classifieds in hListing)
* [http://diarised.com Diarised] is a quick and simple online tool to help pick the best time for a meeting, uses hCalendar for meeting information.
* [http://etnies.com/ etnies.com] uses hCalendar on each sports home page ([http://etniesskate.com/ etniesskate.com]) and the [http://etnies.com/extra/calendar/ calendar of events] page.
* [http://www.mdas.org/ La maison des associations de Strasbourg] uses hCalendar on event pages.
* [http://nuggetshoops.com/schedule.php NuggetsHoops] , an NBA fansite, uses hCalendar for each remaining game in the current season.
* [http://wikevent.org WikEvent] aims to make it as easy as possible to put events on the web with semantic markup, including hCalendar for events and hCard for venues and artists.
* [http://fundyfilm.ca/calendar/ The Fundy Film Society] uses hCalendar for their calendar of upcoming film screenings.
* Psychology Press and Routledge's Behavioral Sciences' publishing division have implemented hCalendar on their conferences listings on 17 of their websites (example on the conference listing on their [http://www.clinicalpsychologyarena.com/resources/conferences.asp Clinical Psychology Arena])
* [http://jhtc.org Jewish High Tech Community] uses hCalendar on event pages.
*[http://www.gore-tex.com/remote/Satellite?c=fabrics_content_c&cid=1162322807952&pagename=goretex_en_US%2Ffabrics_content_c%2FKnowWhatsInsideDetail Gore-Tex "Know What's Inside"] tour dates in hCalendar by [http://microformats.org/wiki/User:Csarven csarven]
* [http://finetoothcog.com/site/stolen_bikes Finetoothcog] uses hCalendar to markup when bikes are stolen.
* [https://www.urbanbody.com/information/contact-us Urban Body Men's Clothing] uses hCalendar for business hours and hCard for business locations.
* [http://www.infoiasi.ro The website of the Faculty of Computer Science], "A. I. Cuza" University Iaşi, Romania, uses hCalendar to markup events.
* [http://www.crosbyheritage.co.uk/events/ Colin Crosby Heritage Tours] uses hCalendar to markup events.
* [http://www.facebook.com Facebook] use hCalendar to markup events.
* [http://www.newbury-college.ac.uk/ Newbury College UK] uses a smattering of hCalendar and hCard
* [http://07.pagesd.info/ardeche/agenda.aspx 07.pagesd.info] uses hCalendar and hCard to mark up events of the Ardèche département in France.
* [http://climbtothestars.org Stephanie Booth] announced the [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2006/09/14/microformats-et-bloggy-friday-doctobre/ Bloggy Friday for October 2006] using hCalendar.
* The [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ West Midland Bird Club], in the English Midlands, uses hCal (with nested hCard) on its [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/ diary of birding events].
* [http://www.comtec-ars.com/press-releases/ ComTec audience response systems' press releases] use hCalendar as a method to organize by title and date.
* [http://webdirections.org/program/ The Web Directions Conference (Sydney Australia)] uses hCalendar for their program. It uses axis and headers for events in a table, and demonstrates how easy it is to make the whole thing downloadable using X2V.
* [http://www.thestreet.org.au/ The Street Theatre (Canberra, Australia)] now uses hCalendar for performances on its [http://www.thestreet.org.au/whats_on.htm What's On] page.
* [http://www.clacksweb.org.uk Clackmannanshire Council] uses hCalendar on its [http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/community/events/ event diary] listing pages and individual event pages.
* [http://www.markthisdate.com/ Calendarportal MarkThisDate.com] now uses hCalendar for all calendars. On our website visitors can add calendars and download calendars to Outlook, Lotus Notes, iCal, Netvibes, 30Boxes, Google Calendar and many others. Over 600 calendars were already uploaded.
* [http://mogue.jp/ mogue] uses hCalendar at [http://mogue.jp/event/1000/ event detail] pages.
* [http://www.gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2006/schedule.cfm 2006 Nobel Conference] uses hCalendar for the conference schedule
* [http://www.geekinthepark.co.uk Geek in the Park] uses hCalendar for the event information. -- by [[User:Trovster|trovster]]
* [http://www.besancon.fr/ official site of Besançon (France)] for its events
* [http://2006.dconstruct.org/schedule/ Conference schedule for d.Construct 2006] is published using hCalendar.
* [http://local.yahoo.com Yahoo Local] now supports hCalendar
* We used hcalendar for the [http://www.fuckparade.org/flyer/2006/ F’parade flyer 2006], a counter demonstration to the Love Parade in Berlin, alas the '''Firefox tails extension''' doesn't get a summary when it's an alt-text in an image.
* [http://www.harper-adams.ac.uk/press/events.cfm Harper Adams University College] uses hCalendar to mark up all University events on the Homepage and Events Calendar page.
* [http://www.capital.edu/ Capital University] uses hCalendar on multiple pages to provide feeds of events, relevant to page content
* [http://www.thesession.org/events/ The Session events] uses hCalendar to mark up concerts, festivals and workshops related to Irish traditional music.
* [http://rubyandrails.org/usergroups/newcastle ncl.rb] uses hCalendar to mark up new meetings.
* [http://www.webanalyticsassociation.org/en/calendarevents/search.asp Web Analytics Association] - hCalendar microformat is in place on all Tendenci sites on the calendar events search page and consolidated list page.
* [http://www.tendenci.com/en/calendarevents/search.asp Tendenci Calendar Events] with hCalendar
* [http://www.argolon.com/2006/04/17/web20-conference-in-dublin/ Web2.0 Conference in Dublin] hCalendar event
* [http://www.meetup.com/ Meetup.com] has marked up [http://www.meetup.com/cities/us/ny/new_york city event calendars], [http://photo.meetup.com/100/events/ group event lists], and [http://www.meetup.com/ signed-in homepages] with hCalendar.
* [http://ukwindsurfing.com/ ukwindsurfing.com] has marked upcoming events with hCalendar, and the [http://ukwindsurfing.com/events/ events page] in a table.
* [http://ocono.com/ ocono.com] has marked up it's "Upcoming Events" list with hCalendar.
* [http://www.austinbloggers.org/ Austin Bloggers] has marked up their "Upcoming Events" box with hCalendar ([http://www.austinbloggers.org/blog/a/001123.html announcement]).
* Ning's cloneable Group app has [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] markup on its [http://group.ning.com/index.php?controller=event&action=list event calendar] and [http://group.ning.com/index.php?controller=event&action=view&id=727220 event detail] pages.
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html Agenda: W3C Technical Plenary Day, March 1 2006] has [[hcard|hCard]] and [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] markup. ([http://www.w3.org/2006/03/01-TechPlenAgenda.html original here]).
* The National Arbor Day Foundation has started using hCalendars for their [http://arborday.org/programs/conferences/communityforestry/index.cfm upcoming] [http://arborday.org/programs/conferences/hazardtrees-treeplanting/ conferences].
* [http://www.stateofflux.com/ State of Flux street art site] has started adding events in hCalendar format
* The [http://barcamp.org/#BarCamps BarCamp home page lists upcoming BarCamps marked up with hCalendar] and even has a "Subscribe..." link.
* [http://www.w3.org/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html 2006 W3C Technical Plenary Week] has marked up the schedule and events for the week with hCalendar.
* [http://www.code4lib.org/2006/schedule code4lib Conference 2006 Schedule] is marked up with hCalendar as [http://www.code4lib.org/node/65 announced on their blog].
* [http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754 IEEE 754 Working Group] - trying hCalendar for upcoming meetings.
* [http://www.pehuen.org/node/494 Elecciones 2005 Chile] - the first spanish language hCalendar event found in the wild.
* [http://www.codewitch.org/it/2005/11/17/no-creative-commons-no-party/ Giocolando » No Creative Commons? No Party!] is marked up with hCalendar
* [http://www.cmprofessionals.org/events/calendar.html CM Pros Events Calendar] by Bob Doyle
* [http://www.midgard-project.org/community/events/ Midgard CMS Event calendar] - as [http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/new-event-calendar-for-midcom.html blogged by Henri Bergius]
* [http://www.iowamilitaryveteransband.com/schedule/ Iowa Military Veterans Band Schedule] - hCalendar markup [http://weblog.randomchaos.com/archive/2005/10/24/Microformats/ added by Scott Reynen]
* [http://www.funfairgames.net/weblog/posts/00000011.html Upcoming events on Jason A.R. Moody Amusements Weblog] posted by Jason Moody on 15 Oct 2005. [http://www.funfairgames.net/weblog/index.html His weblog] in general has hCalendar events posted inside the blog posts.
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2005/syndicate/tracks-sessions-schedule.html Syndicate - Tracks & Sessions]
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2005/web2/program.html Web 2.0 Conference schedule page marked up with hCalendar]
* [http://www.thisiscmon.com/ C'MON] is a rock band from Canada, and their [http://www.thisiscmon.com/shows/ tour dates] have been marked up by [http://www.d2digitalmedia.com/ Ray Dickman] with hCalendar.
* [http://ifreebusy.com/ ifreebusy.com] will display freebusy information using hCalendar. See this [http://ifreebusy.com/neiljensen/freebusy/ example].
* [http://we05.com/ Web Essentials 05] has marked up their [http://we05.com/program.cfm program schedule table with hCalendar], using the 'axis' and 'headers' attributes.
* [http://www.asdvbonaparte.nl/ ASDV Bonaparte] is a Dutch debating society. Their events calendar has been marked up with the hCalendar conventions.
* [http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog Suw Charman] has marked up [http://suw.org.uk/archives/category/events/ her events] with hCalendar.
* [http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/ Blog Business Summit] has published their [http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/details.htm event details] marked up with hCalendar.
* [http://eventful.com Eventful.com] publishes all events with hCalendar and venues with [[hcard|hCard]]. Took them only 15 minutes to implement both! Their Atom feeds also contain hCalendar/hCard.
* [http://upcoming.org Upcoming.org] publishes all events and lists of events with hCalendar. Took them only an hour to add hCalendar support to the site.
** The dtend values for events with no time specified (like [http://upcoming.org/event/110145/ | Burning Man] are not exclusive. This causes problems when sending the microformats info to places like Google. They do correct the dtend when exporting to Outlook though. They have been made aware of the problem.
* The [http://laughingsquid.com/squidlist/calendar/ Laughing Squid Calendar] events, [http://laughingsquid.com/squidlist/calendar/9949/2005/5/9 e.g. this party], now supports hCalendar.
* [http://paulschreiber.com/ Paul] Schreiber's [http://concerts.shrub.ca/ Sunnyvale House Concerts] site publishes hCalendar event information for upcoming concerts. In addition the [http://concerts.shrub.ca/shows Past Shows] page contains hCalendar events for all past concerts.
* [http://www.complexspiral.com/ Complex Spiral Consulting], both in the "Events" box on left side, and the separate [http://www.complexspiral.com/events/ Events page].
* [http://tantek.com/log Tantek's Thoughts], specifically the "Events" roll in the right-most column.
* [http://suda.co.uk/projects/holidays/ Lesser Known Holidays], a list of holidays on [http://suda.co.uk suda.co.uk] that can be imported via iCal and hCal so you can compare actual transformation versus intended.
* [http://norman.walsh.name/2005/itinerary/ Norm Walsh's travel schedule] use hCalendar as well as GRDDL.
* [http://www.policyawareweb.org/2005/ftf2/paw-mtg Policy Aware Web (PAW) Project Meeting] uses hCalendar to record date-related decisions, and uses a vtodo microformat to record action items.
* The [http://lufgi4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems] publishes it's [http://lufgi4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/cfps list of notable CfPs on dependability and security] with hCalendar-todo elements.
* The [http://laughingsquid.com/laughing-squid-10th-anniversary-party/ Laughing Squid 10th Anniversary Party] has an hcalendar page.
* SPRACI has hcalendar versions of its nightlife/clubbing/gigs/festivals listings for many cities worldwide - eg: [http://www.spraci.com/listhcalendar.php?parea=sydney&category=all Events in Sydney] (check the [http://www.spraci.com/api/ API] pages in the faq section of [http://www.spraci.com/ SPRACI] for more info about the area/city keywords and category tags to use to get data for your city/categories
* WWF-Australia events calendars: [http://wwf.org.au/act/events/ What's on], [http://wwf.org.au/act/volunteer/ Volunteer]
* [http://rubyholic.com rubyholic] uses hCalendar to publish calendars for ruby groups.
* [http://www.bath.ac.uk/whats-on/ University of Bath What's On] uses hCalendar on individual event pages
* The [http://www.kiez-ev.de/ Kiez] is a small cinema and has published its [http://www.kiez-ev.de/programm program] marked up with hCalendar

===World Cup Kick-off===
* [http://www.worldcupkickoff.com/ World Cup KickOff] where you can download and keep all the fixtures you are interested in so you will never miss a single game of the 2006 football World Cup!
** This link was on the [http://www.lifehacker.com/software/sports/world-cup-start-times-for-ical-etc-175393.php Lifehackers site] and made its way to the yahoo news site:

<blockquote>
Mon May 22, 4:00 PM ET
The World Cup, one of the world's most watched sporting events, is almost upon us. If you've ever tried to follow your favorite team through the Cup you know that it can sometimes be difficult to know when they're on. World Cup Kickoff can help.

World Cup KickOff is all you will ever need for knowing all the match details for the upcoming World Cup 2006. Whether you use your mobile phone, MS Outlook, Apple iCal or Mozilla Calendar, you can download and keep all the fixtures you are interested in so you will never miss a single game!

Next tip? We'll show you how to get up at 2 AM to watch your matches. ;0) Thanks to Tom for the tip!
</blockquote>

== Examples with some problems ==
If you find a problem with any example in any other section, please move it here, and note the precise problem and cite the section of the [[hcalendar | hCalendar spec]] that appears to be violated. If the example that was moved here is yours, and you want to improve it, see the [[hcalendar-faq| hCalendar FAQ]], or raise any queries on [[hcalendar-issues| hCalendar issues]] or [[mailing-lists#microformats-discuss|the mailing list]], where people will be happy to help you.

* [http://www.gretchenland.com Gretchen] has their show schedule marked up with hCalendar
** Example here: [http://www.gretchenland.com/shows Upcoming Concert Dates]
**Invalid: <code><nowiki><SPAN title="2007-04-21" class="dtstart">04.21.2007</SPAN></nowiki></code> [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:08, 20 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* I'd be happy if some future french Pinko-marketing meetings (CantineCamp) could require the use of hCalendar for listing some informal lunches in Paris. [http://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wikidev.cgi?FR/PinkoMarketing/CantineCampParis10 CantineCampParis10 is an example] to include a hCalendar + hCard markup on the wiki-page. When converting to vCard, "Mendès" accent is malformed in a french outlook 2003 "address book". I've looked UTF-8 example but could not find any way to correct. Any idea ? -- [[User:ChristopheDucamp|xtof]] 01:09, 26 Mar 2007 (PDT)
* [http://www.joomlamug.com Joomla! Melbourne User Group] uses hCalendar markup for listing of all events.
** No examples on cited page. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 15:06, 31 Jan 2007 (PST)
* [http://www.webfeet.org/events.html Webfeet events] includes hCalendar markup in its aggregated events lists.
** <s>Possibly a case where <nowiki><abbr></nowiki> won't work for dtstart/dtend as there are many events listed under a single date. [[User:Webf|Webf]] 15:19, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)</s>
**Malformed e.g <code><nowiki><span class="dtstart" title="20070120"></span></nowiki></code> [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 15:41, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
** Continue the discussion under [[hcalendar-issues|hCalendar Issues]] perhaps. [[User:Webf|Webf]] 22:25, 15 Jan 2007 (PST)
* [http://www.theatrestudies.llc.ed.ac.uk/ Theatre Studies: European Theatre] at the University of Edinburgh uses hCalendar to markup news and events on the index page.
**<s>Uses "display:none" on image. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 15:32, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)</s> Removed img tag from hCard
* [http://www.bokle.de/ s'Bokle] is a German music pub. Their events calendar has been marked up with hCalendar.
** improper use of rrule --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 16:04, 6 Jan 2006 (PST)
* [http://plan9.tryphon.org/nancy/list Plan9] - Uses hCalendar to mark up events !
** <s>dtstart/dtend are implemented on span element [[User:TomArmitage|Tom Armitage]] June 23, 2006</s> --[[User:Tim|Tim]] 13:34, 4 Mar 2007 (PST) Fixed now
* [http://www.socaltech.com socalTECH] is a news and information site. Their front page event listing is marked up with hCalendar.
** dtstart/dtend implemented on span element [[User:TomArmitage|Tom Armitage]] June 23, 2006
* [http://www.multipack.co.uk The Multipack] features a vevent for the next meeting information.
** dtstart/dtend are implemented on em element [[User:TomArmitage|Tom Armitage]] June 23, 2006
* [http://paulschreiber.com/ Paul] Schreiber's [http://iceoasis.shrub.ca/ unofficial schedule site] publishes hCalendar information for upcoming hockey games at [http://www.iceoasis.com/ Ice Oasis]
** dtstart/dtend are implemented on td element [[User:TomArmitage|Tom Armitage]] June 23, 2006

- whilst Tails parses the "title" attribute for dtstart/dtend on <em>any</em> element (does Tails still do this?), that is incorrect. The title attribute only provides semantics for the <code><nowiki><abbr></nowiki></code> element, while for elements in general like <code><nowiki><span></nowiki></code>, only the contents of the element are used. This is a simplification and see [[hcard-parsing|hCard parsing]] for details. Technorati Microformats Search only looks for the title attribute on <code><nowiki><abbr></nowiki></code> tags per the rules from [[hcard-parsing|hCard parsing]] which apply to [[hcalendar-parsing|hCalendar parsing]] as well.

== Reviewed Examples ==
If you have reviewed a New Example (and you are not the author of the example) and believe it to be valid, go ahead and move it here.
* ...

== Related Pages ==
{{hcalendar-related-pages}}

rel-tag

2007-06-29T19:45:26Z

DStorey: /* Examples in the Wild */ added dev opera and my opera

<h1> rel-tag </h1>

__TOC__

== Draft Specification 2005-01-10 ==
=== Editors/Authors ===
[http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik]

[http://epeus.blogspot.com/ Kevin Marks]

=== Concept ===
[http://powazek.com/ Derek Powazek]

=== Copyright ===
{{MicroFormatCopyrightStatement2004}}

=== Patents ===
{{MicroFormatPatentStatement}}

== Abstract ==
[[Rel-Tag]] is one of several [[MicroFormats]]. By adding <code>rel="tag"</code> to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is an author-designated "tag" (or keyword/subject) for the current page. Note that a tag may just refer to a major portion of the current page (i.e. a blog post). e.g. by placing this link on a page,

<pre><nowiki><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tech" rel="tag">tech</a></nowiki></pre>

the author indicates that the page (or some portion of the page) has the tag "tech".

The linked page SHOULD exist, and it is the linked page, rather than the link text, that defines the tag. The last path component of the URL
is the text of the tag, so

<pre><nowiki><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tech" rel="tag">fish</a></nowiki></pre>

would indicate the tag "tech" rather than "fish".

== Scope ==
rel="tag" is specifically designed for "tagging" content, typically web pages (or portions thereof, like blog posts).

rel="tag" is NOT designed for "tagging" arbitrary URLs or external content. There is demand for a general decentralized syntax for tagging URLs external to the current page, but this is not meant for that. See [[xfolk|xFolk]] and [[hreview|hReview]] for ways to tag arbitrary URLs.

If you need to define tags as part of a more specialised format, rel="tag" is the recommended way to do so, and [[xfolk|xFolk]], [[hreview|hReview]], [[hcard |hCard]] and [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] all do this.
== XMDP profile ==
<pre><nowiki>
<dl class="profile">
<dt id="rel">rel</dt>
<dd><p>
<a rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#adef-rel">
HTML4 definition of the 'rel' attribute.</a>
Here is an additional value.</p>
<dl>
<dt id="tag">tag</dt>
<dd>Indicates that the referred resource serves as a "tag",
or keyword/subject, for the referring page.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
</dl>
</nowiki></pre>

== Tag Spaces ==

Tags are embedded in HTTP URIs in a well-defined manner so that the tag embedded in an HTTP URI can be mechanically extracted from that URI. Specifically, the last segment of the path portion of the URI (after the final "/" character) contains the tag value. For example, the URI <pre><nowiki>http://www.example.com/tags/foo</nowiki></pre> contains the tag "foo".

Thus, for the purposes of comparing two HTTP URIs as tags, the last segment of the path portion should be extracted and only that value (that value of the tag) should be compared.

''Need more formal language about comparison and extraction process.''

The destination of a rel="tag" hyperlink is required to be a tag space (a place that collates or defines tags), where the last segment of the path of the URL is the tag, e.g.

<pre><nowiki>http://technorati.com/tag/tech </nowiki></pre>

is a URL for the tag "tech".

Tags may only be placed in the URL path, and only in the last segment of the path. Tags may not be placed in query parameters or fragment identifiers. e.g.

<pre><nowiki>http://technorati.com/tag/tech?tag=fish#emu </nowiki></pre>

is still a URL for the tag "tech", not "fish" or "emu".

Since the only part of a tag space URL of which any structure is required is the last path segment, a tag space URL can be hosted at any domain. Authors may choose to link to a tag at a particular tag space in order to provide a specific meaning. E.g. a tag for technology could link to:

<pre><nowiki> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology </nowiki></pre>

Trailing slashes in tag URLs are ignored, that is:

<pre><nowiki> http://technorati.com/tag/Technology/ </nowiki></pre>
as a rel-tag URL is treated as:
<pre><nowiki> http://technorati.com/tag/Technology </nowiki></pre>

== Encoding issues ==
Spaces can be encoded either as <code>+</code> or <code>%20</code>. Unicode characters are encoded as specified in [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt RFC 3986]. For example:

<pre><nowiki><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Sant%C3%A9+et+bien-%C3%AAtre" rel="tag">Santé et bien-être</a> </nowiki></pre>

Note that if using Wikipedia as a tagspace, as discussed above, you should use <code>%20</code> as they remap '+' to <code>%2B</code>, causing a page with a plus sign in the title (which usually does not exist) to appear.

== Tags Are Visible Metadata ==
<code>rel="tag"</code> hyperlinks are intended to be visible links on pages and posts. This is in stark contrast to meta keywords (which were invisible and typically never revealed to readers), and thus is at least somewhat more resilient to the problems which plagued meta keywords.

Making tag hyperlinks visible has the additional benefit of making it more obvious to readers if a page is abusing tag links, and thus providing more peer pressure for better behavior. It also makes it more obvious to authors, who may not always be aware what invisible metadata is being generated on their behalf.

As a result the invisible tag link syntax variant: <code><link rel="tag" href="..." /></code> SHOULD NOT be supported by implementations.

==Examples in the Wild==
This section is '''informative'''.

The following sites have implemented rel-tag, and thus are a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc. If your site marked up with rel-tag, feel free to add it to the '''top''' of this list. Once the list grows too big, we'll make a separate wiki page.

* [http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/ My Opera] uses rel-tag for tags on all user's blog entries.
* [http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/making-wii-friendly-pages/ Dev Opera] uses rel-tag on all article tags.
* [http://www.international.unt.edu UNT International] uses rel-tag to indicate content categories on most pages
* [http://yedda.com Yedda] - Yedda publishes rel-tags for all of the tags the people entered on themselves as well as on all tags entered on questions asked on Yedda.
* [http://www.lingr.com Lingr] publishes rel-tags for all user entered tags.
* [http://odeo.com ODEO] [http://odeo.com/blog/2005/07/adding-microformats-to-odeo.html publishes] rel-tags for user entered tags.
* [http://eventful.com Eventful] publishes rel-tags for user entered tags.

== Implementations ==
This section is '''informative'''.

The following implementations have been developed which either generate or parse rel-tag links. If you have a rel-tag implementation, feel free to add it to the '''top''' of this list. Once the list grows too big, we'll make a separate wiki page.

* [http://www.hubtag.com HubTag] helps users find a unique tag across the web for their event - eg. JohnAndBettysWeddingWimbledonMarch07
* [http://www.necctar.com Necctar] is a search engine exclusively based on tag microformat parsing and processing. Necctar uses tags entered by bloggers to index the world wide web
* Nutch has a [[rel-tag]] parser [http://www.mail-archive.com/nutch-commits@lucene.apache.org/msg01014.html committed to their svn repository].
* [http://www.webstandards.org/action/dwtf/microformats/ Dreamweaver Extension suite] from the [http://webstandards.org/ Web Standards Project] enables rel-tagging from within Dreamweaver 8.
* [http://scooch.gr0w.com/ Scooch] slide show creator allows authors to generate rel-tags and group slide shows by rel-tag via a list or cloud with tag usage count.
* The Freetag plugin for the [http://www.s9y.org Serendipity] blog software supports rel-tags on a per-entry basis, as well as inside of its tag clouds. (The Freetag plugin is available inside of SPARTACUS)
* [http://placenamehere.com/TXP/pnh_mf/ pnh_mf] is a plugin for [http://textpattern.com/ Textpattern] that supports embedding rel-tags and other microformats in templates and blog posts. Written by [http://placenamehere.com/ Chris Casciano].
* [http://www.truist.com/blog/493/trutags-a-tagging-plugin-for-textpattern tru_tags] is a plugin for [http://textpattern.com/ Textpattern] that supports rel-tagging blog posts via the Keywords field.
* [http://news.livejournal.com/86492.html?thread=24881884 LiveJournal] - see also [http://www.livejournal.com/support/faq.bml?cat=tags their FAQ regarding their tags support]
* [http://trac.labnotes.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/TagsLinks TagsLinks] Turn each tag into links that let you find related content on tagging services.
* [http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/BunnysTechnoratiTags Tag plugin for WordPress]
** Note that some sites using WordPress (http://microformatique.com/ for instance) are getting incorrect tags. The tag is ?cat=12 instead of the actual tag value.
* [http://noone.org/blog/tags/Tagging Tag plugin for Blosxom]
* Technorati first implemented rel-tag in its [http://technorati.com/tag/ Technorati Tags] service. Technorati indexes rel-tag tags.
* [http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2005/12/updated-multiple-word-technorati-tag.html Greasemonkey script for Firefox that generates tags for Blogger]
* [http://tools.microformatic.com/help/xhtml/rel-lint/ rel-lint] is a validation tool by [[User:DrewMcLellan|Drew McLellan]] that will validate existence of rel-tag attributes.

== References ==
=== Normative References ===
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/ HTML 4]
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ XHTML 1]
* [http://gmpg.org/xmdp/ XMDP]
* RFC 3986 specifies URL syntax. Section 3.3 specifies URL paths and path segments.

=== Informative References ===
* [[hreview|hReview]] uses rel-tag for tags and scalar tags
* [[xfolk|xFolk]] uses rel-tag to build a distributed remote resource tagging construct
* [http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/attentionxml Attention.XML] uses rel-tag for reader tagging of pages, posts, feeds
* [[hcard|hCard]] can use rel-tag for categories
* [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] can use rel-tag for categories
* [http://technorati.com/help/tags.html Using Technorati Tags]
* Contributed from http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/RelTag
* [http://microformatique.com/?p=61 Know your rel-tag] at microformatique.com

== Discussions ==
* Feedback is encouraged on the [[rel-tag-feedback]] page.
* See also [http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/referer.html blogs discussing this page].
* History: [http://www.powazek.com/2005/07/000532.html How Tags Happened at Technorati] by [http://www.powazek.com/ Derek Powazek]

=== Q&A ===
* If you have any questions about rel-tag, check the [[rel-faq|rel FAQ]] first for general rel attribute questions, then check the [[rel-tag-faq|rel-tag FAQ]], and then if you don't find answers, ask your question on the [http://microformats.org/discuss microformats-discuss] mailing list.

==Related pages==
{{rel-tag-related-pages}}

hcard-examples-in-wild

2007-06-29T19:33:58Z

DStorey: /* New Examples */ added Dev Opera

=hCard Examples in the wild=

This page is an '''informative''' section of the [[hcard|hCard specification]].

The following sites have published [[hcard|hCards]], and thus are a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc.

If people or organizations on your site are marked up with hCard (even just your own contact information), feel free to add it to the top of this list. Please be sure to include at least one URL to a page on your site that includes actual [[hcard|hCard]] markup. Examples added without a URL to a page with hCard markup may be removed.

Want to get started with writing an [[hcard|hCard]]? Use the [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator] to write up some contact information and publish it, or follow the [[hcard-authoring|hCard authoring tips]] to add hCard markup to your current contact page.

==Buttons==
You can use these buttons on pages with hCards. See [[buttons#hCard]] for any recent additions.

* http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png (mirror: http://www.davidjanes.com/images/mf_hcard.png)
* http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/hcard.png
* http://www.boogdesign.com/images/buttons/microformat_hcard.png
* CSS-powered button, as evidenced at [http://re-run.com/about/microformat-badges microformat badges @ re-run]

== Examples To Act On ==

===New Examples===

Please add new examples to the '''top''' of this section so they can be reviewed! Please check back after a few days, to see if anyone has found any problems with the examples supplied.

* [http://dev.opera.com/authors/ Dev Opera] Opera's developer site uses hCards on the author details pages.
* [http://chrischerry.name/ Chris Cherry's contact page with his hCard]
* [http://www.kiteboarder.com.au/php/search.php www.kiteboarder.com.au] A new Australian kiteboarding portal. Microformats have been used so that users can export the shops <s>directly to outlook</s>. I was able to learn microformats through the Media 2007 conference in London. Author: Damien King
* [http://krevi.dk/ KREVI] A Danish research institute. Using hCard in the footer of each page and on staff list. This is the first known danish website from the public sector of Denmark using microformats.[http://krevi.dk/om-krevi/organisation/medarbejdere example staff list]
* [http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/web-team/ College of Humanities and Social Science Web Team's site], University of Edinburgh uses a hCard in the footer of each page.
* [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ globeandmail.com] Canada's National Newspaper uses an hCard for their contact information.
* [http://www.logisteam.pl/ Krzysztof Rucinski] uses an hCard for his contact details on [http://www.logisteam.pl/keylogger.kontakt.html Logisteam keylogger contact] page.
* Creation design & marketing has hCards throughout the site, including the [http://www.creation.uk.com/contact/ contact page], the [http://www.creation.uk.com/company/leigh-scott/ company profile pages] and on the [http://www.creation.uk.com/news/2007/06/06/easy-money/#comments-view comments on articles]
* Wikipedia now has a template, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hcard-geo hcard-geo], for in-line hCards with coordinates, such as that on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_Arm Engine Arm]
* [http://www.thomsonlocal.com/ ThomsonLocal.com], major UK business directory publisher, use hcard on the search results and company information pages.
* [http://www.corissia.com Corissia Group Hotels in Crete Greece] have included contact information as a hCard on the footer of every page of the website. There is a multilingual implementation as well.
* [http://zucchetti.co.uk/2007/03/06/simple-address-formatting-solution/ Laura Zucchetti] illustrates a simple address formatting solution as a hCard and marked up in a definition list.
* [http://www.feike.de/Kontakt.html Feike Contact] has a hCard on to top of the page.
* [http://www.londondrum.com/ London Drum] uses a whole host of microformats - there are hcards and geo's on the hotel pages, events are written up in hcalendar format on the homepage, and you can also find some hreviews as well (like on the [http://www.londondrum.com/accommodation/athenaeum.php Athenaeum Hotel page])
* [http://www.regels-stadskanaal.nl/ Regelingenbank Stadskanaal] has a hCard on each page, containing Geo-information too.
* [http://www.tomstone.se Tom Stone - Trollkarl] has a hCard in the footer of each page of the site.
* [http://www.rolandinsh.lv/ Rolands Umbrovskis]'s home page has hCard in [http://www.rolandinsh.lv/?ro=contacts contact page] and all other pages with contact information.
* [http://www.epiphanysolutions.co.uk/ Epiphany Solutions Ltd] use a hCard on their contact us page. We intend to use the hCard on everypage if successfully implemented, along with a link to the Technorati vCard generator.
* [http://twitter.com Twitter] uses hCard for user information (along with [http://ihack.us/2007/05/14/twitter-gets-microformatted/ several other microformats])
* [http://www.bendodson.com/developer/ Ben Dodson] uses an hCard for his contact details on every page of his site as well as using hCards for any XFN relationships in his blogrolls.
*[http://www.pats.ua.ac.be/group PATS Group Members] uses hCard to mark up member contact information.
*[http://couchsurfing.com CouchSurfing] has limited information in hCard available on members' profiles (such as [http://www.couchsurfing.com/people/guaka Guaka's]).
*Wikipedia-UK (Ukranian)
**Starting to roll out on biographies e.g. [http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Vadym Hetman]
* [http://christophertcressman.com Christopher T. Cressman] uses an hCard on the home page of his blog, [http://christophertcressman.com christopher t cressman].
* [http://kpumuk.info Dmytro Shteflyuk] uses an hCard on his [http://kpumuk.info/contact/ contact] and [http://kpumuk.info/curriculum-vitae/ curriculum vitae] pages.
*Wikipedia-EN
**starting to roll-out on articles about people, for example [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_einstein Albert Einstein]. The nature of Wikipedia means that there are a large number of templates to update (Albert's is "infobox scientist; there's also "infobox military people", "infobox musician" and so on, almost ad infinitum). DoB is only included if it's entered using a birth-date template, not as raw text.
**starting to roll-out on articles about places, for example on UK Railway station template, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_New_Street Birmingham New Street station] (includes Geo); and cities, for example [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York]. See above for note on Wikipedia templates.
**Any Wikipedia editors willing to assist with updating templates should see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats Wikipedia's microformat project]; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_hCards Wikipedia templates generating hCards] & [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_Geo Wikipedia templates generating Geo]
* The [http://www.bayofislands.net/ Bay of Islands] site has implemented hCard on all listing pages, eg: [http://www.bayofislands.net/accommodation/backpackers/saltwater-lodge/ Saltwater Lodge]
* [http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~mpschaef/index.html Merrick Schaefer] is psyched to use hCard on his homepage for his contact info.
* [http://www.hess-cr.com Christian Hess] has an hCard in his [http://www.hess-cr.com/utilidades/correo.shtml#postal contact] and [http://www.hess-cr.com/secciones/curriculum/datos.shtml personal curriculum] pages (in Spanish)
* [http://www.JamPlanet.com Jam Planet] uses hCard in Contact Us page; application can generate hCard for a contact.
* [http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/ The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards], designated specifically to recognize works addressing issues of racism and diversity, uses hCard for the author bios of [http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/Winners/PastWinners/ past winners].
* [http://www.buy-our-honeymoon.com/ Buy Our Honeymoon], a wedding gift list service, uses hCard in their [http://www.buy-our-honeymoon.com/contact Contact Us] page.
* '''W3C webmaster''' [http://www.w3.org/People/Jean-Gui/ Jean-Guilhem Rouel] now has an hCard.
* [http://source.ibegin.com/ iBegin Source] - All 10.8+ million business listings have their information marked up in hCard. Example: [http://source.ibegin.com/california/adelanto/aeronautical-supplies/general-atomics-9779-yucca-rd-1.html General Atomics]
* [http://david.weekly.org/ David Weekly] has added an hCard to his home page for himself.
* [http://ficlets.com/stories/12 Ficlets] story page uses hCard for author bio.
* [http://redmonk.com/contact/ RedMonk Contact page] uses hCard for RedMonk firm as well as each analysts.
* [http://source.ibegin.com/ iBegin Source] uses hCard to identify business information for all 10.5+ million businesses listed.
* [http://www.lounews.com/ The Louisville News Company] uses hCard for site-wide contact information for the company and for the site developer.
* [http://cloudislands.com/contact.php Cloud Islands] uses hCard for our Contact Info.
* [http://www.international.unt.edu UNT International] uses hCard to mark up contact information sitewide (see esp. [http://www.international.unt.edu/offices/ieli/people/instructors/profiles the IELI instructor profile listing])
* [http://www.giraffo.de giraffo.de] has different hCards on every page (+ geo in "kontakt")
* [http://www.enap.com ENAP, Inc.] lists the HR Contact in hCard format on the [http://www.enap.com/career.aspx Career Opportunities] page.
* [http://sxsw07.conferenceer.com/people Conferenceer] lists panelists and participants to the 2007 South by Southwest interactive conference in hCard format
* [http://news.stanford.edu Stanford News] (Redesign) hCard in the footer on every page as well as markup for every staff member on the Staff page.
* [http://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wikidev.cgi?FR/EveMoreau Valérie-Eve Moreau] has an hCard on her wiki-homepage.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s_Minster%2C_Doncaster St George's Minster, Doncaster, on Wikipedia]
* AOL Journals publishes hCards for authors. [http://journals.aol.com/carowill/whats-happening Example]
* Ian McKellar's [http://ian.mckellar.org/ home page] is an hCard that's styled to look like a business card.
* [[Christophe Ducamp]]'s hCard based on [http://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wikidev.cgi?FR/MicroFormats/ChristopheDucamp wiki personal page] of a wiki-branch which could be dedicated to seed a french group to support microformats. Thanks to Laurent Lunati for the CSS. You can [http://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wikidev.cgi?action=edit&id=FR/MicroFormats/ChristopheDucamp edit it]. Any suggestions welcome.
* [http://www.matthewwest.co.uk Matthew West] has an hCard on his [http://www.matthewwest.co.uk/email contact] page.
*[http://www.webmaster.waw.pl Paweł Wrzosek] Freelance webdeveloper`s portfolio
*[http://thibeaultstudios.com Thibeault Studios] has an organization hCard in the footer on every page as while as individual hCards on the [http://thibeaultstudios.com/contact_us.php Contact] page.
*[http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford.edu] hCard markup is included in the footer of the homepage and all subsequent pages within the /home directory.
*[http://openid.ne.jp OpenID.ne.jp] First OpenID provider service in Japan(日本語). Each personal OpenID page (ex:[http://eouia.openid.ne.jp http://eouia.openid.ne.jp]) is marked up as his hCard. And there is a company hCard on every page, too.
* [http://www.qwertycars.co.uk/garages/mechanics-near-tadworth-kt20.aspx UK Car Garages] Address of car mechanics in the UK, in hCard format.
* [http://www.columbiaautomation.com/sub/contact.php Columbia Automation]'s About Us page every employee marked up as an hCard, as well as having a company hCard with geo information.
* [http://www.pointermix.com Pointermix Design] uses the hCard format.
* [http://eight6.com/contact/ eight6]'s contact page uses the hCard format.
* [http://www.raveaboutit.com.au Rave About It]'s business listings use the hCard format.
* [http://optics.org/cws/Contact/OurTeam.do optics.org]'s team page.
* [http://www.robcottingham.ca/contact Rob Cottingham]'s first foray into microformats is an hCard on the contact page of his personal blog. (He was inspired by Tantek Çelik's presentation at Web Directions North 2007.)
* [http://redmonk.net/about-this-site Steve Ivy] - hcard about page, includes the usual suspects + XFN on 'url's, photo, amd geo.
* [http://seattleu.edu Seattle University] uses hCard on it's front page and most pages that share an official template.
* [http://www.josemarti.waw.pl Jose Marti XXII Secondary School in Warsaw] includes hCard on Contact and About Author sections
* [http://www.jaama.co.uk Jaama] have their company details as a vCard download on their [http://www.jaama.co.uk/Contact.aspx contact] and [http://www.jaama.co.uk/Fleet_Management_Software.aspx fleet management software] page.
* [http://3amproductions.net 3AM Productions] has company details marked up as hCard all across the site and particularly for [http://3amproductions.net/jason.php Jason] and [http://3amproductions.net/gilbert.php Gilbert]
* [http://jc-development.co.uk/ JC's Development] has company contact details as hCard.
* [http://berlin.barwick.de/index.html Berlin Guide] is converting their address markup to hcard, e.g. [http://berlin.barwick.de/shopping/kadewe-kaufhaus-des-westens.html KaDeWe]
* [http://www.xlntads.com XLNTads] has their contact information marked up in hCard, as well as their development schedule/timeline in hCalendar
* [http://derrick.pallas.us Derrick Pallas] tells people to look for him here.
* [http://bluemonkcreative.com/contact/ Bill Turner] adds an hCard to the contact page of his freelance business' website.
* [http://www.oppenheim.com.au/ James Oppenheim's blog] includes an inline author hCard in the footer of each page and also on the contact page.
* [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/ NYU Steinhardt] has [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/list/Faculty 240+ faculty bios marked up], e.g. [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Susan_Murray].
* [http://www.boogdesign.com/aboutus.html boogdesign.com] has added hCard markup on the contact page.
* [http://www.gptg.org/ Great Places To Golf], hCards for golf clubs around the world, e.g. [http://www.gptg.org/club/12/]
*[http://www.travellerspoint.com/ The Travellerspoint Travel Community] has added hCards to all of their member profiles (e.g. [http://www.travellerspoint.com/member_profile.cfm?user=jax_07]). Details include name, photo, location, notes and url.
* The [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ West Midland Bird Club] in the English Midlands uses hCard on its [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/ home page], [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/ events diary], [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/club/contact.htm contact pages], [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/site/links.htm links page], [http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/club/older.htm list of the world's oldest bird clubs] and in a page footer which is gradually being rolled out across the whole site. {{UpdateMarker}} Page-footer's hCard now has logo, using [[include-pattern]].
*[http://wizardishungry.com/blog/ wizardishungry/blog] has the author's hCard in the footer of every page with a link to X2V.
* [http://www.walkerfineart.com Walker Fine Art Gallery] Most pages contain an hCard in the footer.
* [http://www.brdatasystems.com.au/contact-us.html B&R Data Systems] is an organisation hCard. We have also used the technorati tool to download as a vCard, which I think is useful for a business.
* [http://chewbittel.com/contact.php Chew Bittel Assoc., Inc.] is an organization hCard. It's got abbr's in there, and a duplicate telephone field, and some hidden things. I'm really pushing things to the limit here. This should be a great test for your parser.
* [[User:Steve Ivy|Steve Ivy]]'s [http://redmonk.net/about-this-site/ about page] has his hcard, including a link to Technorati's contacts feed to let visitors download his contact information.
* Scott Allan Wallick's hCard is [[User:ScottWallick|his user page]] and on his blog, [http://www.plaintxt.org/about/2/ plaintxt.org]
* [[User:Bob_Jonkman|Bob Jonkman's hCard]] '''on this 'wiki''''
* [http://thetenwordreview.com The Ten Word Review] simply contains ten word long reviews. All reviews are marked up as [[hreview|hReviews]], and user information is marked up as hCards.
*OffshoreAgile.com, a subsite of Starsoft Development Labs, uses hCard in the [http://www.offshoreagile.com/company/contact/ Starsoft Contacts] and Media Inquiries sections
*T-Mobile uses hCard for the [http://t-mobilepressoffice.co.uk/press/contact-details/ T-Mobile UK Press Contact Details page], as well as for some of the latest press releases
* Psychology Press and Routledge's Behavioral Sciences' publishing division have implemented hCard on their contact pages on 17 of their websites (example on the contact page on their [http://www.clinicalpsychologyarena.com/contact/ Clinical Psychology Arena])
*[http://72ppi.us 72ppi], uses hCard in the footer.
*[http://www.csarven.ca Sarven Capadisli] uses hCard throughout the site (including user comments in articles).
* [https://www.urbanbody.com/information/contact-us Urban Body Men's Clothing] uses hCard for business locations and hCalendar for business hours.
* [http://www.iqair.us/ IQAir North America], uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://www.infoiasi.ro/ The website of the Faculty of Computer Science], "A. I. Cuza" University Iaşi, Romania uses hCard for each staff member.
* [http://www.finds.org.uk/ The Portable Antiquities Scheme at the British Museum] hCards added to footer of every page and to contacts section. Working on adding more and getting it right.
* In [http://www.ideasfornet.com/ IdeasForNet.com - the ideas repository] hCards were implemented partially in the footer of each page, and more comprehensively in the contact and about pages.
* The [http://www.cst.ed.ac.uk/ Centre of Canadian Studies] at the University of Edinburgh use hCards for contact information in the footer of their site.
* [http://www.theatrestudies.llc.ed.ac.uk/ Theatre Studies: European Theatre] at the University of Edinburgh use hCards for contact information on their home page
* [http://www.carolinemockett.com/design/about.aspx Caroline Mockett] has an hCard on her About Me page
* [http://wait-till-i.com Christian Heilmann] has a footer address using hCard
*[http://www.audience-response-rentals.com/ Audience Response System Rentals] uses hcard as a popup in the site accessibility area (lower right) for easy copy and paste of address by customers.
* [http://www.fischsolutions.com/ Fisch Internet Solutions] uses an embedded hCard and a vCard download to provide customers an easy way to contact them on their [http://fischsolutions.com/contactus.html Contact Us] section of the website.
* [http://www.micatholicconference.org/ Michigan Catholic Conference] uses hCard for contact information in the sidebar.
* [http://www.adambunn.co.uk/ Adam Bunn] provides contact details in the sidebar using hCard.
* [http://www.belkin.com/pressroom/releases/uploads/10_10_06NotebookExpansionDock.html Belkin Press Releases] are using hCards for PR contacts and corporate offices.
* [http://mybank.com myBank.com] uses hCard for its listings of every branch of every FDIC-insured bank in the United States.
* [http://leftlogic.com Left Logic] uses hCard for embedded contact information.
* [http://inga-art.co.uk/artist Inga Scholes] uses hCard for contact information in the sidebar.
* [http://www.lussumo.com/ Lussumo] uses hCards on user profile pages in its open-source [http://www.getvanilla.com/ Vanilla] Discussions Forum software.
* [http://www.creative-ways.nl/ Ron Kok] uses hCards to mark-up the names and URLs of commentors on his blog. He also uses hCards in combination with XFN in his blogposts to refer to friends, and has an hCard for himself on every page on his blog.
* [http://tagg.no Tagg Media] uses hCard for [http://heine.tagg.no/contact.php contact information] and provide link to vCard download in the contact section.
* The article about the fictitious Matrix character [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_%28The_Matrix%29 Thomas A Anderson in Wikipedia] is now marked up with hCard.
* [http://dconstruct06.madgex.com/ d.Construct 2006 Backnetwork] uses hCards for conference delegates (and provides the markup so that delegates can copy and paste cards into their own sites).
* [http://www.brown.edu Brown University] now uses hCard on the front page
* [http://www.wideblueyonderweb.co.uk Dunks at Wide Blue Yonder Web Design] has added hCard markup on his [http://www.wideblueyonderweb.co.uk/wbyw/pages/contact.htm contact page] and is looking to implement it on all past & future contact pages for clients.
* [http://southamptonrubberstamp.com Southampton Rubber Stamp Company] now has hCard markup with a vCard download link on every page.
* [http://barefoot-ceramics.com Barefoot Ceramics paint your own pottery studio] (in Newport, South Wales) has added hCard markup to its [http://barefoot-ceramics.com/find#address "Find"] page and other address instances. They hopes to implement hCalendar event lists as soon as an ics to hCalendar PHP class can be found or written.
* [http://dsingleton.co.uk/ David Singleton] has added a hCard to his blog.
* [http://www.thestreet.org.au The Street Theatre (Canberra, Australia)] has added hCard markup to its [http://www.thestreet.org.au/contact.htm Contact Us] page. hCalendar markup will soon be added for all of our performances.
* [http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/SVS/personnel/henrich/index.php Henrich C. Pöhls] has marked up his about page using hcard, including his PGP-Key that is stored in an abbr title, using class=key.
* [http://www.yalf.de Yalf Webentwicklung] has [http://www.yalf.de/kontakt contact information] available as hCard (and vCard).
* [http://www.zeldman.com/about/ Jeffrey Zeldman]. Jeffrey Zeldman has marked up his about page using hcard.
* [http://WhereAreYouCamping.com Where Are You Camping]. hCards for all members and camps, employing the include pattern as well. AFAIK this is the first Burning Man related microformats implementation, not to mention addresses in Black Rock City.
* [http://www.clacksweb.org.uk Clackmannanshire Council ]. hCard is implemented for all contact details across the site, and for specific individuals such as elected members (Councillors).
* [http://www.webdirections.org Web Directions]. hCard is used as contact information for the conference, while speakers are marked up with hCard.
* [http://www.markthisdate.com/contactform.html MarkThisDate.com]. An hCard is implemented on our contact form. For our calendars hCalendars will follow as soon as possible.
* [http://www.msiinet.com/contact/ MSI Systems Integrators] has its "Contact MSI" page encoded with hCards.
* [http://www.coolblue.nl/ Corporate website of Coolblue BV]. hCards were implemented in both the footer of each page, and in the "News" section for press contact information.
* [http://www.besancon.fr/index.php?p=32 Official site of Besançon (France)] uses hCard for each page concerning the small towns surrounding Besançon.
* [http://2006.dconstruct.org/speakers/ d.Construct 2006 conference speakers list] is implemented using hCards.
* [http://local.yahoo.com Yahoo Local] now supports hCards for business and places in the search results
* [http://learningtheworld.eu/imprint/ Learning the World] has hcard information on the imprint, alas we didn't succeed to mark-up the work phone and fax numbers properly.
* The [http://www.fuckparade.org F’parade] website uses hcard, though I didn't find a type to distinguish mobile and landline phone numbers.
**Use <code>cell</code> for mobiles.
* [http://www.miranet.nl/contact.htm Miranet Webdesign] have added a hcard to their [http://www.miranet.nl/contact.htm 'contact' page]
* [http://weblog.200ok.com.au/ Ben Buchanan] has added a vCard to the [http://weblog.200ok.com.au/about/ 'About' page on The 200ok Weblog]
* [http://www.radiantcore.com Radiant Core] has their contact information [http://www.radiantcore.com/contact/ available in hCard].
* [http://www.mikerumble.co.uk/ Mike Rumble] has [http://www.mikerumble.co.uk/contact.html uploaded his hCard].
* [http://www.saumag.edu/ Southern Arkansas University] has its contact footer encoded as hCard
* [http://main.uab.edu/ University of Alabama at Birmingham] has its contact footer encoded as hCard
* [http://www.capital.edu Capital University] has contact footer and bloggers' names encoded as hCard. Also, all page-specific contact information is encoded as hCards (see [http://www.capital.edu/Internet/Default.aspx?pid=67 Admissions] page for an example)
* [http://main.uab.edu/shrp/ UAB School of Health Professions] uses hCard in its contact footer
* [http://green.carisenda.com/ Stephen Stewart] has his hCard on the front page of his weblog ('You are here' section)
* [http://www.direction.es/ Direction] uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://audiobank.tryphon.org AudioBank] uses hCard to display member informations.
* [http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/speakers/ @media speakers] are marked up with hCard (photos depend on BASE tag support which makes this a good test case)
* [http://www.dougransom.com Doug Ransom] uses hCard for his financial advisory practice.
* [http://rubyandrails.org/usergroups/newcastle/members.html ncl.rb] uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://www.snowinteractive.com/ Snow Interactive] uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://flickr.com Flickr] now supports [[hcard|hCard]] and [http://gmpg.org/xfn XFN] on profile pages. See [http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/113866484/ screenshot of Flickr UI in Flock browser using Flocktails extension - March 17th 2006].
* [http://www.ndiyo.org/contact Contact information for the Ndiyo project]
* [http://www.pixelenvy.co.uk/ Pixel Envy] uses hCard for contact information on every page
* [http://stilbuero.de/contact/ Klaus Hartl] uses hCard in the sidebar for contact information (maybe easier to parse through delivering xhtml as xml).
* [http://charlvn.virafrikaans.com/contact Charl van Niekerk's hCard]
* [http://billy-girlardo.com/WP/ BillyBLOGirlardo] uses hCard for contact information.
* [http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/ Hicksdesign] uses hCard for contact information.
* http://www.gr0w.com/articles/press/growsearch_launched_press_release/ - hCard in a press release for the press contact info
* http://www.redmonk.com/cote/archives/2006/03/testing_out_mic.html - hCard with explanation
* [http://andy.ciordia.info/ it's my island], personal blog, hcard on the ''[http://andy.ciordia.info/pages/about_me About the Writer]'' page. [[User:Ciordia9|Andy Ciordia]]
* [http://www.windowonwoking.org.uk/ Window on Woking], a local community site in the UK, uses hCard in the homepage of each member organisation and local Councillor.
* [http://ChunkySoup.net/ ChunkySoup.net] has redesigned using hAtom 0.1 and hCards on the entire site -- by [[User:ChrisCasciano|Chris Casciano]]
* [http://www.30boxes.com/ 30 Boxes],a social calendar application and digital lifestyle aggregator, automatically creates an hcard for you with your account. It is found under Settings > Syndication.
* [http://www.nearwhere.com/ Nearwhere.com] allow you to put an hcard on an interactive map.
* [http://www.brentozar.com/ Brent Ozar] added a [http://www.brentozar.com/contact.php contact] page hCard.
* [http://www.kerihenare.com/ Keri Henare] has rewritten his [http://www.kerihenare.com/contact/ contact] page hCard. Now using <code><object></code> instead of <code><img></code> for photo. (Thanks Brian Suda for updating the vCard converter)
* [http://michaelraichelson.com/contact/ Michael Raichelson] had an hCard on his contact page before SXSW, but never thought to add it here until Tantek requested it.
* [http://www.commoner.com/~lsimon/lindsey_simon_hcard.html Lindsey Simon] has added an hCard to his website as per Tantek's SXSW request for folks to try it
* [http://www.davidgagne.net/ David Gagne] has an hCard in his sidebar.
* [http://www.churchzip.com/map/ Churchzip.com/map] and [http://www.skiwhere.com/map/ Skiwhere.com/map], provide churches, hotels, and ski resorts on the same maps. Locations are formatted as hCards.
* All [http://www.iqdir.com/ IQ Directory Solutions] Yellow Pages web portals use [[hcard|hCard]] markup on listings. For example [http://www.yellowpages-cambodia.com/ Cambodia Yellow Pages] and [http://www.superpages.com.my/ Malaysia Super Pages]
* Ning's cloneable Group app uses fuzzy matching to map custom fields to [[hcard|hCard]] markup on its [http://group.ning.com/index.php?controller=person&action=view&content=JonathanAquino profile] pages.
* [http://claimid.com/factoryjoe Chris Messina' ClaimID hCard]
* [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/hcard Chris Messina' hCard]
* [http://flock.com/about Flock About]
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/03-01-TechPlenAgenda.html Agenda: W3C Technical Plenary Day, March 1 2006] has [[hcard|hCard]] and [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] markup. ([http://www.w3.org/2006/03/01-TechPlenAgenda.html original here]).
* [http://www.gr0w.com/articles/press/growsearch_launched_press_release/ GrowSearch Launched (Press Release)] uses an hCard to provide Press Contact Point.
* The [http://www.arborday.org/ National Arbor Day Foundation] has started using hCards for their [http://arborday.org/programs/conferences/communityforestry/index.cfm upcoming] [http://arborday.org/programs/conferences/hazardtrees-treeplanting/ conferences].
* [http://www.multipack.co.uk The Multipack] has numerous hCards, especially on the [http://www.multipack.co.uk/members/ members page], as well as the next meeting information.
* [http://deadringrancor.livejournal.com/ Justin McDowell] used an hCard when [http://deadringrancor.livejournal.com/221332.html referring to a person in his blog post]
* [http://davecardwell.co.uk/cv/ Dave Cardwell] has included his hCard in his Curriculum Vitae.
* [http://blog.usweb.com/ Shaun Shull] has written a great post on [http://blog.usweb.com/archives/how-microformats-affect-search-engine-optimization-seo How Microformats Affect SEO], and has included his [[hcard|hCard]] as one of the examples.
* [http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/ Jesse Skinner] has written a simple [http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/hcard tutorial with examples]
* [http://www.w3.org/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html 2006 W3C Technical Plenary Week] has marked up the venue, contacts, and program committee members all with hCard.
* [http://www.avf-nexus.co.uk AVF-Nexus] have a hCard on their [http://www.avf-nexus.co.uk/contact/ contact page] - (by [http://creation.uk.com Creation"])
* [http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/ Andrew White] posted [http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/my-hcard/ his hCard] and [http://www.thefantasticos.com/andrew/index.php/62/microformats-the-should-have-been-obvious-web-dev-tool/ blogged about it].
* [http://www.2sheds.ru Oleg "2sheds" Kourapov] in his [http://www.2sheds.ru/blog/ blog] ([http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard.php?uri=http://www.2sheds.ru/blog X2V]) has turned personal profile into hCard ([http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard.php?uri=http://www.2sheds.ru/blog/hcard.html X2V]) and his blogroll - into combination XFN/hCards ([http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard.php?uri=http://www.2sheds.ru/blog/friends.html X2V])
* [http://www.approveddesign.co.uk Approved Design Consultancy] have a hCard on their [http://www.approveddesign.co.uk/about/contact/ contact page] as well as on their [http://www.approveddesign.co.uk/about/people/ people section] - (by [http://creation.uk.com Creation"])
* [http://weblog.200ok.com.au/ Ben Buchanan] and [http://www.griffith.edu.au/cgi-bin/phone_search.pl?string=colin+morris&format=search Colin Morris] have [http://weblog.200ok.com.au/2006/01/griffith-phonebook-adds-hcard-and.html implemented hCards and vCards] for the [http://www.griffith.edu.au Griffith University] [http://www.griffith.edu.au/find/content_phonebook.html online phone book]. Eg. [http://www.griffith.edu.au/cgi-bin/phone_search.pl?string=ben+buchanan&format=search Ben's vCard] and [http://www.griffith.edu.au/cgi-bin/phone_search.pl?string=colin+morris&format=search Colin's vCard]
* WWF-Australia [http://wwf.org.au/about/contactdetails/ contact details page]
* [http://rasterweb.net/raster/ Pete Prodoehl] used the hCard format on his [http://rasterweb.net/raster/contact.html Contact page] and his [http://rasterweb.net/portfolio/ Portfolio]
* [http://alexander-mette.de amette] uses the hCard format in a module of his TikiWiki powered blog
* [http://staff.washington.edu/oren/weblog2/ Oren Sreebny] has an hcard on his blog main index template
* [http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/ Patrick Tufts] has an hCard on his homepage.
* [http://ascii20.blogspot.com/ Mathias Kolehmainen and Jamie Taylor] have hCards on their weblog.
* [http://www.hoppsan.org/jamesb/blogger/ Barnaby James] has a hCard on his weblog.
* [http://esa-education.com/schools/map ESA Education] Uses hCards for their 100+ schools and each of the individual school sites.
* [http://www.thereisnocat.com/#vcard Ralph Brandi] has added an hCard to the sidebar of his weblog as a result of Tantek Çelik's portion of the Microformats presentation at SXSW 2006.
* [http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/ephone/ Pierce College] -- community college directory uses hCard on all individual directory entries.
* [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/ the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006] have marked up all their [http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/committee/ speakers with hCard].
* http://wikitravel.org/en/Singapore/Sentosa. Wikitravel is experimenting with hcard on its travel guides. This guide uses hcard for all its business listings. More info on http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel_talk:Listings.
* [http://www.musik-erber.de/ Musik-Erber] uses to present contact information at the sidebar
* [http://cdevroe.com/about/#contact Colin D. Devroe] uses hCard to display his contact information on his about page
* The ECS (Scool of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton) [http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people People Pages] use vCard. Contact cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk if there's any bugs.
* [http://www.southwestern.edu/~ramseyp Pat Ramsey] has his contact information on his blog marked up with hCard. Contact [mailto:ramsey.pat@gmail.com ramsey.pat@gmail.com] if there are any bugs there.
* [http://www.vyre.com/company/contact-us/ VYRE] is a CMS development company with a "contact us" hCard
* [http://www.lefdal.cc/info.php Alf Kåre Lefdal] uses hCard in the markup of his contact information
* [http://www.pignwhistle.com.au/ Pig N Whistle, a chain of pubs in Brisbane, Australia] is using hcard to mark up all the contact pages for its outlets and head office
* [http://kollitsch.de/ Patrick Kollitsch] has built his personal Profil as hCard
* [http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/dspar/ Harvard Business School] has hCards on their faculty pages
* [http://openmikes.org/ openmikes.org] uses hCards for open mike venue addresses in its listing detail pages.
* [http://www.intertecnollc.com/ InterTecno, LCC] publishes an hCard on the home page and contact page.
* [http://canaltcm.com/ver/sobre-tcm Turner Classic Movies TCM Spanish website] has published contact details as a hCard
* [http://rejuvenation.com/ Rejuvenation] is now using hCard for contact information.
* [http://www.mattash.com/contact/ Matthew Ash] uses the hCard in his contacts section.
* [http://yarmouthguide.com/business.php Yarmouth Guide] uses hCard for each business details page.
* [http://www.merchantcircle.com MerchantCircle] has embedded an hCard in every one of their 15+ million US business listings.

===Examples with some problems===

Entries may be moved here if there's a problem with the way hCards are used on the page concerned. If the page is yours, and you want to improve it, see the [[hcard-faq|hCard FAQ]], or raise any queries on [[hcard-issues|hCard Issues]] or [[mailing-lists#microformats-discuss|the mailing list]], where people will be happy to help you.

* [http://www.reefscape.net reefscape.net] Personal blog page that has a hidden hCard in the about section on every page. A vCard can be downloaded using the Technorati service.
**Hidden.
* [http://www.cosmotourist.com www.cosmotourist.com] and [http://www.cosmotourist.de www.cosmotourist.de] A new German and English portal around travel tips. Using hidden hCard for hotel listings, wherever address data is available.
**Hidden.
* [http://www.venncommunications.com Venn Communications System] uses a hidden hCard sitewide.
**Hidden.
* [http://www.last.fm Last FM] has hCards hidden on their profile pages e.g. [http://www.last.fm/user/Crok/?scrobbling=t1].
**Hidden.
* [http://krisswatt.co.uk/ Kriss Watt] has hidden an hCard his blog footer.
**Hidden.
* [http://www.fberriman.com/ Frances Berriman] has a hidden vCard in the footers of her website.
**Hidden.
* [http://www.candlescience.com/ CandleScience Candle Supply] added a hidden hcard sitewide.
**Hidden.
* [http://www.meryl.net/ Meryl K. Evans] has a hidden hCard on her homepage.
**Hidden.
* [http://www.highflyerscareers.com High Flyers Careers], India's first flight-crew placement agency uses microformats for their [http://www.highflyerscareers.com/corporate/ corporate information] page. Using standards couldn't be easier or better.
**Has honorific prefixes as part of "fn", rather than marked up separatley.
* IBM is embracing microformats. The [http://www.ibm.com/contact/employees/ IBM Employee Directory] now returns hCards in its query results. Also see the [http://www.ibm.com/shortcuts/ Shortcuts Podcast].
**Invalid - no <code>fn</code>; <code>adr</code> has no children.
* Spotstor.com eg - [http://spotstor.com/] uses hCard on profile pages (where user has elected to show contact information).
* [http://soap.stanford.edu/ Stanford Online Accessibility Program] has implemented hCard on every page
**positioned off screen via CSS [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 15:09, 9 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* [http://www.belkin.com/pressroom/releases/uploads/10_09_06SportCommand.html Belkin Press Release] - All Belkin press releases since October 2006 use hCard and vCard for company contact info.
**One of the three hCards in invalid (no "fn") [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 16:50, 2 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* [http://www.rayberndtson.com/en/worldwide-offices/ Ray & Berndtson], a global recruitment firm, are listing all of their offices worldwide as hCards, e.g [http://www.rayberndtson.com/en/worldwide-offices/western-europe/united-kingdom/ UK offices].
** All invalid: no "fn". [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:05, 31 Mar 2007 (PDT)
* The imprint of [http://www.hsg-kl.de/impressum/index.php Hohenstaufen Gymnasium Kaiserslautern]
** No <code>adr</code>. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 12:10, 3 Mar 2007 (PST)
* [http://www.alexa.com Alexa Internet] marked up its [http://www.alexa.com/site/company/managers managers' page] with hCard.
**Person's job title within "fn". [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/press/default.htm Natural England] (new UK government agency, formed 2006-10-01).
** No "fn" - which makes it invalid.
*[http://drop-off.co.uk G3:2] uses hCard with geo tags in the copyright and on the about me page
** Address data is hidden using CSS.
* [http://zdnet.co.uk/misc/contact/ ZDnet Contact Us Page] supports [[hcard|hCard]].
** by [http://www.subtleasafish.com/ James Myers] and [http://www.fromthefrontend.co.uk/2006/11/23/zdnet-uses-microformats/ David Long]
**Images and e-mail addresses are hidden; telephone numbers do not comply with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.123 E.123]
* [http://gbraad.nl/ Gerard Braad] has published an example on his [http://gbraad.nl/site/?p=profile profile] page that is almost consistent with his original [http://gbraad.nl/files/gbraad.vcf vCard] file. Also progress is made for transforming his [http://files.gbraad.nl/foaf.rdf FoaF] file to a hCard encoded representation (also done for my spouse:[http://spouse.gbraad.nl/site/?p=profile Yong Yuan])
** (2005-09-27) PASSED, PASSED
** WARNINGS
*** uses 'n given-name' and 'n family-name' instead of nesting the given- and family- names inside the 'n'
*** has one 'tel' value with a bunch of values stuffed in
*** probably more problems --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 17:19, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)
* [http://kinrowan.net/ Cori Schlegel] [http://kinrowan.net/blog/wp/archives/2005/07/08/a-problem-with-the-structured-blogging-plug-in-for-wordpress/ discusses how he has updated] [http://kinrowan.net/blog/contact his contact page with hCard]
** INVALID - using 'prefix' instead of 'honorific-prefix' and type's in classnames (in both adr and tel) and has two photo's (the second could be 'logo') --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 15:15, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)
* The good ship [http://styrheim.com/test/leonid.html Leonid Miloslavskiy] spotted in the North Atlantic
** INVALID --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 00:50, 27 Oct 2005 (PDT)
*** class="family" should probably be family-name
*** the "n" property is missing and the "n" optimization can't be applied
*** the first geo propery is empty, the second one is invalid (i.e., it doesn't contain lat/long)
* [http://landsbank.fo/#hCard Landsbanki Føroya]
** INVALID - using embedded RDF/XML invalidly
* [http://www.bath.ac.uk/contact/ University of Bath] Person Finder results are encoded with hCards so you can easily create a vCard from any result.
** ERROR - attempt to use Implied-N optimization where that's not possible. --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 14:29, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)
** Error appears for external users only. Won't be fixed any time soon. -- [[User:PhilWilson|PhilWilson]] 00:03, 28 Jan 2006 (GMT)
* [http://richi.co.uk/blog/2005/12/structured-blogging.html Richi Jennings] has put up his attempt
** INVALID, missing "fn"--[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 12:47, 5 Jan 2006 (PST)
* [http://www.yellowpencil.com/contact/ Yellow Pencil] Using microformats to present company contact information
** First hcard has empty "fn" and no "n". "fn" should be with "org" -- [[User: ScottReynen |ScottReynen]] 21:29, 19 Jun 2006 (CST)

=== Reviewed Examples ===
Reviewed New Examples which are fine can be moved here to indicate that they've been reviewed. Or take the next step and note which type of example in the wild each of these are, and then please move them to the "Grouped Examples" sectionl

* [http://vcardplus.info/show.asp?uid=Z9959-06323 Greg Bays], the author of vCardPlus! has made his sites vCard display page hCard complaint.
* [http://www.nfwebsolutions.com/ New Frontier Web Solutions] uses hCard on their front page along with a link pointing to Brian Suda's [http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard?uri=http://www.nfwebsolutions.com/ X2V].
* [http://shiftingpixel.com/about/the-artist shifting pixel photoblog] has published an hCard.
* [http://thoughtport.blogspot.com/ Aiden Kenny] hasn't published his hCard yet, but he has [http://thoughtport.blogspot.com/2005/07/elemental-particles-of-web.html published his hCard icon]: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4224/444/320/AK-Hcard-icon.gif
* [http://thedredge.org Andy Hume] uses hCards to mark-up the names and URLs of commentors on his blog, e.g. his [http://thedredge.org/2005/06/using-hcards-in-your-blog/ blog post on "Using hCards in your blog"].
* [http://www.bidclix.com/ BidClix]'s [http://www.bidclix.com/AboutContact.html Contact BidClix] page has it's ''contact info'' marked up with an hCard.
* [http://suda.co.uk/ Brian Suda] has managed to embed a photo in [http://suda.co.uk/contact/ his hCard] through the [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt data URI scheme] by converting the image to BASE64 code. View the Source to see how this is accomplished. [http://suda.co.uk/projects/X2V/get-vcard.php?uri=http%3A//suda.co.uk/contact/ The X2V link] will extract the image and encode it for a vCard which will be displayed in some address book applications.
** Inspired by this I thought to try the same for SVG at [http://barefoot-ceramics.com/find Barefoot] ...
** <img class="photo" style="display:none;" src="data:image/svg+xml;text,<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='no'?><svg xmlns:svg='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' version='1.0' width='50' height='80' id='svg3957'><defs id='defs3959' /><path d='M 28.91433,...32.192802 z' style='fill:#cc4d00;fill-opacity:1;fill-rule:evenodd;stroke:none;stroke-width:0.625;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-miterlimit:4;stroke-opacity:1' id='path9551' /></svg>" alt="Barefoot">
** Does it work?? Well it parses OK. Some automated tools replace the < with %3C (etc., e.g. Brian Suda's vCard form). Unfortunately Kontact (KDE contacts tool) doesn't handle SVG as a vCard photo or logo format - I don't know if this is a standard. It seems it could work and maybe even does somewhere. Maybe the text field needs to be Base64 encoded? ... see [http://slashdot.org/~pbhj/journal/142382 pbhj's slashdot journal] for a bit more on this.
* [http://cinematreasures.org Cinema Treasures] uses hCard to markup venue information for 10,000+ movie theaters.
* [http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/events/ Dan Connolly's index of events and talks] has hCards for many of the people he has met at those events. In Mar 2006, he moved a bunch of hotel contact info from his PDA to this page; it's now up to 32 hCards.
* [http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/ Don Crowley] has published [http://www.crowley.nl/hcard.html his hCard] as well as a nifty hCard button: http://www.crowley.nl/images/hcard.png
* [http://loadaveragezero.com/hnav/contact.php Douglas W. Clifton] added all types of contact information
* [http://eventful.com Eventful] publishes all of its venue information pages with embedded hCards.
* [http://www.iowamilitaryveteransband.com/members/ Iowa Military Veterans Band Contacts] - 95 hCards [http://weblog.randomchaos.com/archive/2005/10/24/Microformats/ marked up by Scott Reynen]
* [http://JackWolfgang.blogspot.com Jack L. Wolfgang II] has [http://jack.randomata.com/resume/ converted the addresses in his resume to hCards].
* [http://www.efas.fupl.asso.fr/efas/_Mathieu-Drouet_.html Mathieu Drouet] and [http://www.efas.fupl.asso.fr/efas/_Annie-Leger_.html Annie Leger] both have hCards
* [http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/ Oliver Brown] has published his hCard.
* [http://www.paradigmproductions.org/contact/ Paradigm Productions] published a vCard as a <code>ul</code> (marked up by [http://www.linkingarts.com/ Peter Jacobson])
* [http://www.splintered.co.uk/ Patrick H. Lauke] has marked up [http://www.splintered.co.uk/about/ his contact info with hCard].
* [http://blah Paul Schreiber has published his hCard on [http://paulschreiber.com/about/?contact his about page].
* [http://paulschreiber.com/blog/ Paul Schreiber]'s [http://concerts.shrub.ca/ Sunnyvale House Concerts] site publishes hCards for upcoming artists, as well as an hCard for the page itself. In addition the [http://concerts.shrub.ca/shows Past Shows] page contains hCards for all past artists.
* [http://www.paulmichaelsmith.com/blog/hcard.htm Paul Smith] has created an hCard page which is Human Readable, and a link to X2V passing the same hCard page to generate a vCard.
* [http://www.windley.com/archives/2005/07/hcards_trying_o.shtml Phil Windley has published] [http://phil.windley.org/hcard.html his hCard].
* [http://www.go-curiosity.com/about.htm Piercarlo Slavazza] has published an hCard.
* [http://zooibaai.nl/ Rob Mientjes] has published his hCard on [http://zooibaai.nl/about/ his about page].
* [http://rbach.priv.at/Contact Robert Bachmann] has published his hCard and [http://rbach.priv.at/Images/hcard a button].
* [http://blah Scott Reynen has published his hCard on [http://www.randomchaos.com/document.php?source=scott_reynen his profile page].
* [http://www.stackframe.com/ StackFrame, LLC] has published [http://www.stackframe.com/people/ employee] and [http://www.stackframe.com/contact/ general] contact information as hCards.
* [http://www.wolfsreign.com Steven Ametjan] has published his hCard on [http://www.wolfsreign.com/about/ his about page].
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2005/syndicate/speakers-list.html Syndicate - Speaker List] as a set of hCards
* [http://tagcamp.org/index.cgi?ContactList TagCamp contact list]
* [http://www.deadringerart.com/ The Brothers McDowell] have hCards at their Contact page.
* [http://twinsparc.com/ Twinsparc] put an hCard in the header and footer of all their pages.
* [http://tantek.com/microformats/2005/web2/speakers.html Web 2.0 Conference speakers page marked up with hCard]
* [http://we05.com/ Web Essentials 05] marked up all their [http://we05.com/presenters.cfm presenters with hCard].
* [http://www.uoguelph.ca/directory/ The University of Guelph] includes hCard info in its directory.
* [http://www.echildcare.com.au/ The Australian Child Care Index] has over 3000 entries listing child care services across Australia - and every single one is marked up with an hCard!
* [http://www.cadforless.com/partners/ CADforless, Inc.] we listed our partners using hCard
* [http://avon.com/ Avon] - publishes all 40,000+ Avon representatives' contact info with hCard.
* [http://flock.com/about Flock About] page supports hCard microformat.
** by [[implementations#Flock|Flock]]
* [http://www.iowamilitaryveteransband.com/members/ Iowa Military Veterans Band]
* [http://www.nature.com/ Nature homepage], uses [[XOXO]].
** by [[implementations#Nature Publishing Group|Nature Publishing Group]]
* [http://concerts.shrub.ca/shows Sunnyvale House Concerts] supports hCard and [[hcalendar|hCalendar]].
* [http://www.bath.ac.uk/ University of Bath] [http://www.bath.ac.uk/contact/ Person Finder] supports hCard, e.g. see [http://www.bath.ac.uk/person/760874 Mrs A Smith] page.
* [http://www.monster-prague.cz/ Monster Prague Openings] supports hCard, e.g. home page, contact list to come.

== Grouped Examples ==
This section organizes examples into several rough categories as follows. If an example fits in more than one cateogry, use the *last* matching category in this list that matches the specific hCard example(s) in the wild that you are trying to categorize.
# '''Individuals''' - one card per person, perhaps sort alphabetically by "family-name". People with their own hCards (typically) on their own site.
# '''Organizations''' - one card per organization, alphabetical by "fn". Organizations with their own hCard(s) (typically) on their own site.
# '''Institutions''' - which list more than one person, with a count estimating the # of hCards, e.g. 40k for Avon. Also indicate complexity of information supplied, eg. just name+number vs. complete details. Alphabetically sorted by "org" with perhaps a few individuals listed in a single sub-bullet, comma delimited, sorted by "family-name".
# '''Online Profiles''' - which host profiles for more than one person, with a count estimating the # of hCards, e.g. 10m+ for Flickr.com. Alphabetically sorted by "fn" with perhaps a few individuals listed in a single sub-bullet, comma delimited, sorted by "family-name".
# '''Online Venues''' - which provide listings for businesses or organizations, with a count estimating the # of venues, e.g. ~10k for Upcoming.org. Alphabetically sorted by service/site name, with perhaps a few specific venues listed in a single sub-bullet, comma delimited, sorted by "fn".
# '''Speakers Listings''' - event sites' speakers pages where the speakers are marked up with hCard. Sort by date, sub-grouped by year. Most recent first. Perhaps a few individuals listed in a single sub-bullet each event, comma delimited, sorted by "family-name".

In addition there is a separate "UTF8 Examples" section that can be used to put another link to any hCard examples in the wild which exercise various non-ASCII7 / non-english characters for various property values.

As each section itself become quite large (we might be there already, once we sort through the above "Reviewed Examples"), it will probably be moved to a separate page, leaving its heading here in place, and replacing its contents here with a link to the separate page and perhaps a stats summary.

=== Individuals ===
* [http://dbaron.org/ David Baron]'s home page is marked up with hCard.
* [http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik]'s home page includes an inline author hCard at the bottom of the page.
* [http://blogs.msdn.com/cwilso/ Chris Wilson] has an hCard for himself on [http://blogs.msdn.com/cwilso/about.aspx his about page].
* ...

=== Organizations ===
* [http://technorati.com Technorati] (3)
** [http://technorati.com/about/ about], [http://technorati.com/press/ press], and [http://technorati.com/about/contact.html contact] pages are marked up with hCard and have "Add to Address Book" links that use the [http://feed.technorati.com/contacts/ Technorati Contacts Feed service].
* [http://technorati.jp Technorati Japan] (1)
** [http://technorati.jp/about/contact.html contact] page is marked up with hCard.

=== Institutions ===
* [http://technorati.com/about/staff.html Technorati's Staff page] has hCards for its employees (~31)
** E.g. [http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=adam_hertz#adam_hertz Adam Hertz], [http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=matthew_levine#matthew_levine Matthew Levine], [http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=ryan_king#ryan_king Ryan King], [http://technorati.com/about/staff.html?s=david_sifry#david_sifry David Sifry], etc.
* ...

=== Online Profiles ===
* See [[hcard-supporting-profiles]].

=== Online Venues ===
* ...

=== Speakers Listings ===
==== 2007 ====
* ...
==== 2006 ====
* ...
==== 2005 ====
* ...

===UTF8 Examples===
These examples all contain one or more characters in UTF8 that are outside the ASCII7 range and make for excellent test cases to make sure you are handling UTF8 properly throughout your hCard parsing and transforming. And especially if you are generating vCards, these test cases will help you make sure you are generating UTF8 vCards in such a way that can be recognized by UTF8 supporting vCard applications. Sorted roughly alphabetically (per Unicode).
* [http://sphinx.net.ru/author/ Dmitry Dzhus] embedded his UTF8 encoded hCard with Russian characters in «Author» page of his website.
* [http://tantek.com/ Tantek's Thoughts] encodes Çelik as inline UTF8.
* [http://technorati.jp/about/contact.html Technorati Japan contact information] encodes Japanese as inline UTF8.
* [http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Vadym Hetman] (Wikipedia-UK (Ukranian))
==== nickname only ====
These UTF8 examples only have UTF8 for the "nickname" property and are thus are a bit easier for testing than the previous examples.
* Various Wikipedia-EN articles, e.g. the "nickname" in: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noyabrsk Noyabrsk] (Russian), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaloniki Thessaloniki] (Greek), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto Kyoto] (Japanese) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing Beijing] (Chinese)

===Non-HTML examples===
* [http://dannyayers.com/misc/microformats/hcard-svg Danny Ayers' SVG hCard demo]

== Related Pages ==
{{hcard-related-pages}}

advocacy

2007-06-11T09:36:15Z

DStorey: /* Adding Microformats to Applications */

<h1> Advocacy </h1>

A lot can be done to help advocate the use of microformats. Often, simply by taking an existing site, and adding the suggested microformatting to a few of its pages as examples is all that is necessary to help the developers of the site add the microformats to the site itself. Applications, such as browsers, could also use some guidance on how to best support microformats.

Sometimes advocacy requires comparison and analysis of alternative technologies or approaches. As [[User:MikeSchinkel|Mike Schinkel]] pointed out, we need good answers to comments like "No, we're going to use XYZ instead...".

The goal for this page is to include pointers for how to advocate microformats on new sites and on existing sites that are considering or using alternative approaches, as well as applications that can benefit from supporting microformats.

For general resources for marketing microformats, see [[spread-microformats]].

== Adding Microformats to Existing Sites ==

Add sites here that you think would benefit from the addition of microformats. For now they are grouped by the microformat which would primarily benefit the site. Feel free to take a look at some of the sites on this list, document sample pages to be microformatted, add microformats to them, and then add the before/after of the key sections of mark-up to another wiki page for that site.

Successes are also noted; the most recent are flagged as {{SuccessMarker}}.

If your successes resulted from emails that you sent to site owners/developers, please consider sharing your successful advocacy emails on the [[advocacy-email-samples]] page, and along with each email sample, list the sites which responded positively to your email. This way others in the community can learn from your success and hopefully use your email samples to contact additional sites and get them to adopt microformats.

=== hCard ===
Adding [[hcard|hCard]] to these sites would make them quite handy for their users and for being indexed:

==== Online Profiles ====
Nearly every website that has a login has a page representing the public profile of the user that other users can see and interact with. Many such sites already [[hcard-implementations|support hCard]] (e.g. ClaimID.com, Flickr.com, Technorati.com, Zooomr.com). Here are some that I think would benefit from the addition of hCard to their profile / user pages. Feel free to add more such sites that have a social network profile-like component and I'll see what I can do. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)
* Wikimedia - including this site, Wikipedia (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]), Wikitravel, etc.
**It would be nice if <nowiki>[[User:YOURNAME]]</nowiki> links generated proper (mini)hCards. ([http://microformats.org/wiki?title=to-do&diff=12177&oldid=12173#Lazyweb per SteveIvy]; moved from 'to-do')
* Alexa.com has online profiles for domains with contact information. Would be great if they could add hCard to those. 2007-04-18 [[User:Tantek]] requested of [[User:BenWest]] e.g.:
** http://www.alexa.com/data/details?url=alexa.com/
** http://www.alexa.com/data/details?url=w3.org/
* [http://dodgeball.com/ Dodgeball] profiles and venues need [[hcard|hCard]] for people and organizations
** [http://www.dodgeball.com/user?uid=30209 a profile]
** [http://www.dodgeball.com/venue?vid=23551 a venue] - could also use [[hreview|hReview]] for the user reviews listed there for the venue
* [http://idubyou.com/ i dub you]

==== Online Venues ====
There are many sites that offer pages that represent organizations and venues that could benefit from being marked up with hCard. [http://local.yahoo.com/ Yahoo Local] venues are marked up with hCards for example. Here are some more sites that have venues that would benefit from hCard markup.
* Yelp.com

====Wikpedia hCard====
*Infobox Templates for people to add [[hcard|hCard]] to their generated markup
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_Biography&action=edit Infobox_Biography]
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_actor&action=edit Infobox_actor] which should result in actor pages, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart Humphrey Bogart]'s page, being properly hCarded.
*Addressable buildings e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Crown%2C_Birmingham The Old Crown, Birmingham]
*Tourist attractions, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury_World Cadbury World]
*Companies, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco Tesco] (note headquarters address in infobox)
*Motorway service stations, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford_Gap_service_station Watford Gap]
*Railway Stations, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Barr_railway_station Perry Barr]
*etc.
*See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:10, 28 Jan 2007 (PST)
* See also [[persondata|discussion of Wikipedia's Persondata]], which aligns very closely with hCard, but has additional date and place of birth & death fields. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:23, 28 Mar 2007 (PDT)

====Telephone Directory Listings====
Telephone Directory Listings could usefully apply hCard to their results pages. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 03:10, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)

e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/ BT]
**Requested via [http://tinyurl.com/yhtdjy BT feedback form], 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**BT confirm that they will consider this at their next re-build. 2006-12 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://118118.com 118118.com]
**Requested via e-mail, 2006-11-13. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://192.com/ 192.com]
**Requested via [http://www.192.com/support/feedback.cfm 192.com feedback form], 2007-03-07 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/download/features/skypefind/ SkypeFind]
**Requested via [http://support.skype.com/?_a=tickets&_m=submit Skype feedback form], 2007-03-16 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.whitepages.com/ White Pages (USA/ Canada)]
*[http://www.whitepages.com.au/ White Pages (Australia)]
*[http://www.switchboard.com/ Stitchboard (USA)]]
*[http://people.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! People Search (USA)]
*[http://www.whowhere.com/ Lycos People Search (USA)]
*[http://www.bsnl.co.in/map.htm BSNL (India)]

====Postal (ZIP) code Finders====
Postal code Finders could usefully apply hCard to their results pages. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 12:09, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)

e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://pol.royalmail.com/dda/txt/pf.asp Royal Mail] (UK)
**Requested via [http://tinyurl.com/ya4hzu Royal Mail feedback form], 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Acknowledged 2006-11-30. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Government hCard====
=====UK Gov. hCard=====
* Parliament: [http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hciolists/alms.cfm Alphabetical List of Members of Parliament] (see also [http://www.parliament.uk/directories/directories.cfm other lists of MPs and Lords]). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

=====Europe Gov. hCard=====
* e.g. [http://www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/westmidlands.asp UK MEPs]

===== MAPLight =====
http://maplight.org/ can use a bunch of hCard markup, e.g.
* individual politicians, like [http://www.maplight.org/map/us/legislator/408/individuals Nancy Pelosi]
* mentions of politicians on interest pages like [http://www.maplight.org/map/us/interest/L1300 Teachers unions]
* their contact info of course: http://www.maplight.org/contact
Requested by [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 12:13, 30 May 2007 (PDT) in person at the NetSquared2007 conference.

==== Organization Contacts ====
Many companies and organizations have about or contact pages that could benefit from being marked up with hCard. [http://technorati.com/about/contact.html Technorati's contact page] for example is both marked up with hCard and has a convenient "Add to Address Book" hCard to vCard converter link. The following company sites could benefit from similar markup (and, until user agents support hCards natively, "Add to Address Book" links). [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)
*Adobe
**[http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/offices.html Adobe offices]
***Requested using contact form, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*Google
**Contacts, e.g.
*** [http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/index.html Google.com contact page]
**** Requested by asking Google Employee KevinMarks via instant messaging to add hCard to that page along with a "Add to Address Book" link [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 11:32, 10 Apr 2007 (PDT) and RyanKing in IRC
*** [http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/contact/index.html Google UK], etc.
*[http://www.mozilla.com/ Mozilla]
**[http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/legal.html Mozilla legal notices]
*Opera
**People, e.g. [http://people.opera.com/howcome/ Håkon Wium Lie]; could also be hResume
*W3C
**[http://www.w3.org/Consortium/contact W3C contact]
**[http://www.w3.org/People/all W3C Staff listing] and individual pages, e.g. [http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ Tim Berners-Lee]
***Requested by e-mail. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

==== Individual hCards ====
Getting these sites to at least add hCard to their home page or contact info page and then [http://pingerati.net/ping/ ping Pingerati] would be an excellent start with getting them some experience with microformats and thinking about adding microformats to other places in their sites that make sense:
* [http://metaweb.com/ Metaweb Technologies]
** [http://www.freebase.com/ Freebase ]

====Other hCard====
* [http://www.imdb.com/ Internet Movie Database] (IMDb) for people (real, not characters), e.g. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/ Humphrey Bogart]. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:49, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
*Wikitravel
**e.g. [http://wikitravel.org/en/Birmingham_%28England%29 Wikitravel - Birmingham]
***[http://microformats.org/wiki?title=User_talk:MarkJaroski&curid=2699&diff=0&oldid=10663&rcid=19955 Wikitravel is about to hugely roll out hCard] Mark Jaroski
***See also [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Microformats Wikitravel:Microformats]
*[http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/ WorldCat Identities]
**The recently prototyped WorldCat Identities provides pages for 20 million 'identities', mainly authors and people who are the subjects of published titles.
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-09 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://geonames.org GeoNames]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-07 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Reply confirms that they will deploy hCard and Geo

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* DanC offers a 150 point bounty to anybody who takes [http://www.w3.org/2006/05/w3c-track the W3C track at WWW2006] and adds hCalendar markup and sends it to connolly@w3.org,www-archive@w3.org

====Television listings====
*A major coup would be to get one of the major players (the BBC, Sky, or PBS, say), to mark up their TV or radio listings with hCalendar - does anyone have contacts in such an organisation? [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:53, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)
**Does anyone have URLs to the TV or radio listings of the major players? Getting those URLs would be the next step, and then doing the markup ourselves would be the next step after that. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 13:02, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)

e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ E-petitions] (in draft, and asking for suggested improvements}
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-01 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:47, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:07, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)
*[http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/01/bankholidays Scottish Executive Bank Holidays]
** Requested by [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/HaveYourSay/WebsiteFdbck Scottish Executive feedback form], 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Sports Fixtures====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*PremiumTV (UK, Soccer, has a page for each team)
**[http://www.avfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Fixtures/ Aston Villa]
**[http://www.wba.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Fixtures/ West Bromwich Albion]
*** Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
****"webmaster@" bounced. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Concert/ Theatre Listings====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

=== hReview ===
[[hreview|hReview]] could be used on these sites:

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ E-petitions] (in draft, and asking for suggested improvements}
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-01 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Other hReview====
* [http://www.imdb.com/ Internet Movie Database] (IMDb) for film reviews, e.g. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049291/ The Harder They Fall ]. [[User:AndyMabbett|AndyMabbett]] 02:49, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====Government hAtom====
=====UK Gov. hAtom=====
*[http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ E-petitions] (in draft, and asking for suggested improvements}
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-01 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:49, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:07, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Other hAtom====
* TV Listings (see hCalendar, above)
*[http://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===rel-tag===
====Google as rel-tag namespace====
A Google search for 'sparrow' resolves to http://www.google.com/search?&q=sparrow, if not the unwieldy http://www.google.com/search?hs=TUz&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=sparrow&btnG=Search - likewise http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22black+redstart%22 for ' "black redstart" '. If Google can be persuaded to also accept, say, '''<nowiki>http://www.google.com/search/sparrow</nowiki>''' and '''<nowiki>http://www.google.com/search/black_redstart</nowiki>''' as being equivalent (and assuming that the latter term searches for ' "black redstart" ', with the quote marks), then Google would become a namespace for rel-tag. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 00:15, 29 Nov 2006 (PST)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.

===Various===
*eBay (.com and localised versions)
** '''hCard''' - Buyer and seller address details.
** '''hCalendar''' - Auction end date/times.
** '''hReview''' - Feedback.
** '''hAtom''' - Recent purchases/ won/ lost/ watching etc.
**Requested by feedback form, 2006-12-05. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Miscellany====
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)

== Adding Microformats to Applications ==

User-agents (browsers, etc.) should support microformats natively. For instance, a user should not need to use a third party application or web service to add address details or events from a microformat-using web page to their address book or calendar programme.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====Firefox====
===== Firefox developments =====
*Mozilla are "brainstorming" developments for Firefox 3.0 and beyond, and have a page on microformat handling at http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Microformat_Handling

=====ReminderFox=====
*The makers of the [http://reminderfox.mozdev.org/ ReminderFox] extension have put hCalendar support on their [http://reminderfox.mozdev.org/userrequests.html ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."

====Opera====
* First reference to "microformats" in the [http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=169975&t=1166045417&page=1#comment1851680 Opera forums]. 2006-12-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.operamini.com/ Opera Mini] (and other browsers on telephones) could especially benefit from recognising the "tel" attributes of hCard, and allowing users to dial numbers found on-line.
**[http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=169978 Proposed on forum] 2006-12-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

===Screenreaders===
*Screenreaders (e.g [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp Jaws]) could recognise telephone number components of hCards, to differentiate them from other strings of digits. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:02, 9 Dec 2006 (PST)
** Additional to this, I believe that screen reader users would benefit from being able to recognise any of the microformats. For example, there is value in being verbally notified that a page contains "1 contact and 3 events", or being able to seek out rel attributes with help values. [[User:Phae|Frances Berriman]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki=====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Semantic MediaWiki=====
*[http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki]
** A semantic version of MediaWiki

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===ClearForest===
*[http://sws.clearforest.com/ ClearForest Semantic Web Services ] - uses natural language processing tools to recognise people, organisations, places, events and CVs (resumes) in web pages. Would benefit from recognising hCard, hResume, hCalendar, Geo, Adr, etc. Could also use them in its output. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 05:09, 6 Dec 2006 (PST)

===ma.gnolia===
*[http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

*Details of hCard should be added to the [http://www.imc.org/pdi/ Internet Mail Consortium's vCard page]
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-24 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**'''Success''' achieved 2006-11-25. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*W3C
**{{SuccessMarker}} '''W3C webmaster''' [http://www.w3.org/People/Jean-Gui/ Jean-Guilhem Rouel] now has an hCard. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 15:41, 4 Apr 2007 (PDT)
*{{SuccessMarker}}Wikipedia-EN - starting to roll-out
**UK Railway station template, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_New_Street Birmingham New Street station] (includes Geo)
* [http://jpgmag.com/ JPG magazine] - have sent email to their web developer with sample marked up member profile with [[hcard|hCard]] and [[xfn]] [[rel-me|rel="me"]]. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 23:48, 21 Feb 2007 (PST)
** {{SuccessMarker}} [[hcard|hCard]]+[[xfn]] [[rel-me|rel="me"]] support as of March 2007.
* Twitter.com - working on it [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST).
** {{SuccessMarker}} Completed [[hcard|hCard]]+[[xfn]]+[[hatom|hAtom]] support last week with help from Chris Messina. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 12:01, 16 May 2007 (PDT)
* Consumating.com - working on it [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)
** {{SuccessMarker}} [[hcard|hCard]] profiles, [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] events as of March 2007.
* [http://sunlightlabs.com/api/ SunlightLabs API] provides profiles for US Congresspeople. Their [http://sunlightlabs.com/api/masterref/megatable.php megatable] could easily be marked up with hCard, and their APIs could return hCards and hCard fields.
** [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 12:30, 20 Apr 2007 (PDT) contacted them and requested that they add hCard to megatable, consider a GethCard API method, and potentially a GethResume API method for each person.
** {{SuccessMarker}} [[User:CarlAnderson|CarlAnderson]] 26 Apr 2007: http://sunlightlabs.com/api does now have a people.getHCard.php API method to get an hCard for every member of congress. See the documentation at http://sunlightlabs.com/api/people.getHCard.php. An example call: http://api.sunlightlabs.com/people.getHCard.php?id=fakeopenID1
** {{SuccessMarker}} [[User:CarlAnderson|CarlAnderson]] 30 Apr 2007: I created a page of hCards for every member of congress: http://sunlightlabs.com/api/hcards/index.php

=== hCalendar Successes===

*Details of hCalendar should be added to the [http://www.imc.org/pdi/ Internet Mail Consortium's vCalendar page]
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-24 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**'''Success''' achieved 2006-11-27. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===Geo Successes===
*Wikitravel
**All articles on places, e.g. [http://wikitravel.org/en/Birmingham_%28England%29 Wikitravel guide to Birmingham, England]
**See also [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Microformats Wikitravel:Microformats]
**{{SuccessMarker}} achieved 2006-12-13, per [http://wikitravel.org/shared/Tech:Add_SpecialMap_using_Mapstraction_link_for_geo-tagged_pages_and_for_single_listings] see, for example, [http://wikitravel.org/en/Birmingham_%28England%29 Wikitravel guide to Birmingham, England] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} - over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} - over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} - valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**{{SuccessMarker}} Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' map link pages e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?language=de&params=52_28_47_N_1_53_51_W_type:city_region:GB maps for Wikipedia-DE article on Birmingham]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link pages e.g. [http://www.nsesoftware.nl/wiki/maps.asp?params=52_28_47_N_1_53_51_W_type:city_region:GB&src=Birmingham_%28Engeland%29 maps for Wikipedia-NL article on Birmingham]
**{{SuccessMarker}} GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
***Response: "At the moment we have no plans to use hCalendar or hCard coding due to unresolved concerns about accessibility issues (especially text-to-speech readers), however, we thank you for your suggestion."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

User:DStorey

2007-06-11T09:34:45Z

DStorey:

*Blog: [http://my.opera.com/dstorey Slightly.ajar]
*eMail: dstorey /at/ my company name dot com
*microformats post: [http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/2007/06/10/microformats-on-opera-sites Microformats in Opera]

advocacy

2007-06-11T09:26:21Z

DStorey: /* LinkAlert */

<h1> Advocacy </h1>

A lot can be done to help advocate the use of microformats. Often, simply by taking an existing site, and adding the suggested microformatting to a few of its pages as examples is all that is necessary to help the developers of the site add the microformats to the site itself. Applications, such as browsers, could also use some guidance on how to best support microformats.

Sometimes advocacy requires comparison and analysis of alternative technologies or approaches. As [[User:MikeSchinkel|Mike Schinkel]] pointed out, we need good answers to comments like "No, we're going to use XYZ instead...".

The goal for this page is to include pointers for how to advocate microformats on new sites and on existing sites that are considering or using alternative approaches, as well as applications that can benefit from supporting microformats.

For general resources for marketing microformats, see [[spread-microformats]].

== Adding Microformats to Existing Sites ==

Add sites here that you think would benefit from the addition of microformats. For now they are grouped by the microformat which would primarily benefit the site. Feel free to take a look at some of the sites on this list, document sample pages to be microformatted, add microformats to them, and then add the before/after of the key sections of mark-up to another wiki page for that site.

Successes are also noted; the most recent are flagged as {{SuccessMarker}}.

If your successes resulted from emails that you sent to site owners/developers, please consider sharing your successful advocacy emails on the [[advocacy-email-samples]] page, and along with each email sample, list the sites which responded positively to your email. This way others in the community can learn from your success and hopefully use your email samples to contact additional sites and get them to adopt microformats.

=== hCard ===
Adding [[hcard|hCard]] to these sites would make them quite handy for their users and for being indexed:

==== Online Profiles ====
Nearly every website that has a login has a page representing the public profile of the user that other users can see and interact with. Many such sites already [[hcard-implementations|support hCard]] (e.g. ClaimID.com, Flickr.com, Technorati.com, Zooomr.com). Here are some that I think would benefit from the addition of hCard to their profile / user pages. Feel free to add more such sites that have a social network profile-like component and I'll see what I can do. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)
* Wikimedia - including this site, Wikipedia (See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]), Wikitravel, etc.
**It would be nice if <nowiki>[[User:YOURNAME]]</nowiki> links generated proper (mini)hCards. ([http://microformats.org/wiki?title=to-do&diff=12177&oldid=12173#Lazyweb per SteveIvy]; moved from 'to-do')
* Alexa.com has online profiles for domains with contact information. Would be great if they could add hCard to those. 2007-04-18 [[User:Tantek]] requested of [[User:BenWest]] e.g.:
** http://www.alexa.com/data/details?url=alexa.com/
** http://www.alexa.com/data/details?url=w3.org/
* [http://dodgeball.com/ Dodgeball] profiles and venues need [[hcard|hCard]] for people and organizations
** [http://www.dodgeball.com/user?uid=30209 a profile]
** [http://www.dodgeball.com/venue?vid=23551 a venue] - could also use [[hreview|hReview]] for the user reviews listed there for the venue
* [http://idubyou.com/ i dub you]

==== Online Venues ====
There are many sites that offer pages that represent organizations and venues that could benefit from being marked up with hCard. [http://local.yahoo.com/ Yahoo Local] venues are marked up with hCards for example. Here are some more sites that have venues that would benefit from hCard markup.
* Yelp.com

====Wikpedia hCard====
*Infobox Templates for people to add [[hcard|hCard]] to their generated markup
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_Biography&action=edit Infobox_Biography]
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_actor&action=edit Infobox_actor] which should result in actor pages, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Bogart Humphrey Bogart]'s page, being properly hCarded.
*Addressable buildings e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Crown%2C_Birmingham The Old Crown, Birmingham]
*Tourist attractions, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury_World Cadbury World]
*Companies, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco Tesco] (note headquarters address in infobox)
*Motorway service stations, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford_Gap_service_station Watford Gap]
*Railway Stations, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Barr_railway_station Perry Barr]
*etc.
*See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:10, 28 Jan 2007 (PST)
* See also [[persondata|discussion of Wikipedia's Persondata]], which aligns very closely with hCard, but has additional date and place of birth & death fields. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:23, 28 Mar 2007 (PDT)

====Telephone Directory Listings====
Telephone Directory Listings could usefully apply hCard to their results pages. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 03:10, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)

e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/ BT]
**Requested via [http://tinyurl.com/yhtdjy BT feedback form], 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**BT confirm that they will consider this at their next re-build. 2006-12 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://118118.com 118118.com]
**Requested via e-mail, 2006-11-13. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://192.com/ 192.com]
**Requested via [http://www.192.com/support/feedback.cfm 192.com feedback form], 2007-03-07 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/download/features/skypefind/ SkypeFind]
**Requested via [http://support.skype.com/?_a=tickets&_m=submit Skype feedback form], 2007-03-16 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.whitepages.com/ White Pages (USA/ Canada)]
*[http://www.whitepages.com.au/ White Pages (Australia)]
*[http://www.switchboard.com/ Stitchboard (USA)]]
*[http://people.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! People Search (USA)]
*[http://www.whowhere.com/ Lycos People Search (USA)]
*[http://www.bsnl.co.in/map.htm BSNL (India)]

====Postal (ZIP) code Finders====
Postal code Finders could usefully apply hCard to their results pages. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 12:09, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)

e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://pol.royalmail.com/dda/txt/pf.asp Royal Mail] (UK)
**Requested via [http://tinyurl.com/ya4hzu Royal Mail feedback form], 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Acknowledged 2006-11-30. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Government hCard====
=====UK Gov. hCard=====
* Parliament: [http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hciolists/alms.cfm Alphabetical List of Members of Parliament] (see also [http://www.parliament.uk/directories/directories.cfm other lists of MPs and Lords]). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

=====Europe Gov. hCard=====
* e.g. [http://www.europarl.org.uk/uk_meps/westmidlands.asp UK MEPs]

===== MAPLight =====
http://maplight.org/ can use a bunch of hCard markup, e.g.
* individual politicians, like [http://www.maplight.org/map/us/legislator/408/individuals Nancy Pelosi]
* mentions of politicians on interest pages like [http://www.maplight.org/map/us/interest/L1300 Teachers unions]
* their contact info of course: http://www.maplight.org/contact
Requested by [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 12:13, 30 May 2007 (PDT) in person at the NetSquared2007 conference.

==== Organization Contacts ====
Many companies and organizations have about or contact pages that could benefit from being marked up with hCard. [http://technorati.com/about/contact.html Technorati's contact page] for example is both marked up with hCard and has a convenient "Add to Address Book" hCard to vCard converter link. The following company sites could benefit from similar markup (and, until user agents support hCards natively, "Add to Address Book" links). [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)
*Adobe
**[http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/offices.html Adobe offices]
***Requested using contact form, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*Google
**Contacts, e.g.
*** [http://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/index.html Google.com contact page]
**** Requested by asking Google Employee KevinMarks via instant messaging to add hCard to that page along with a "Add to Address Book" link [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 11:32, 10 Apr 2007 (PDT) and RyanKing in IRC
*** [http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/contact/index.html Google UK], etc.
*[http://www.mozilla.com/ Mozilla]
**[http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/legal.html Mozilla legal notices]
*Opera
**People, e.g. [http://people.opera.com/howcome/ Håkon Wium Lie]; could also be hResume
*W3C
**[http://www.w3.org/Consortium/contact W3C contact]
**[http://www.w3.org/People/all W3C Staff listing] and individual pages, e.g. [http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ Tim Berners-Lee]
***Requested by e-mail. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

==== Individual hCards ====
Getting these sites to at least add hCard to their home page or contact info page and then [http://pingerati.net/ping/ ping Pingerati] would be an excellent start with getting them some experience with microformats and thinking about adding microformats to other places in their sites that make sense:
* [http://metaweb.com/ Metaweb Technologies]
** [http://www.freebase.com/ Freebase ]

====Other hCard====
* [http://www.imdb.com/ Internet Movie Database] (IMDb) for people (real, not characters), e.g. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/ Humphrey Bogart]. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:49, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
*Wikitravel
**e.g. [http://wikitravel.org/en/Birmingham_%28England%29 Wikitravel - Birmingham]
***[http://microformats.org/wiki?title=User_talk:MarkJaroski&curid=2699&diff=0&oldid=10663&rcid=19955 Wikitravel is about to hugely roll out hCard] Mark Jaroski
***See also [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Microformats Wikitravel:Microformats]
*[http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/ WorldCat Identities]
**The recently prototyped WorldCat Identities provides pages for 20 million 'identities', mainly authors and people who are the subjects of published titles.
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-09 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://geonames.org GeoNames]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-06-07 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Reply confirms that they will deploy hCard and Geo

===hCalendar===

[[hcalendar|hCalendar]] could be used on these sites:

==== W3C track at WWW2006 ====
* DanC offers a 150 point bounty to anybody who takes [http://www.w3.org/2006/05/w3c-track the W3C track at WWW2006] and adds hCalendar markup and sends it to connolly@w3.org,www-archive@w3.org

====Television listings====
*A major coup would be to get one of the major players (the BBC, Sky, or PBS, say), to mark up their TV or radio listings with hCalendar - does anyone have contacts in such an organisation? [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:53, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)
**Does anyone have URLs to the TV or radio listings of the major players? Getting those URLs would be the next step, and then doing the markup ourselves would be the next step after that. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 13:02, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)

e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.tvtimes.co.uk/ TV Times] (UK)
** Requested by e-mail 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*BBC main listings (e.g. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/index.shtml?service_id=4223 BBC One])
** Requested by [http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/bbci_comment.shtml BBC Feedback Form] 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-January/008129.html "We're currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4"] 2007-01-14 per email.

====Government hCalendar====
=====UK Gov. hCalendar=====
*[http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ E-petitions] (in draft, and asking for suggested improvements}
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-01 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:47, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:07, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)
*[http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/01/bankholidays Scottish Executive Bank Holidays]
** Requested by [http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/HaveYourSay/WebsiteFdbck Scottish Executive feedback form], 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Sports Fixtures====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*PremiumTV (UK, Soccer, has a page for each team)
**[http://www.avfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Fixtures/ Aston Villa]
**[http://www.wba.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Fixtures/ West Bromwich Albion]
*** Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
****"webmaster@" bounced. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Concert/ Theatre Listings====
e.g. (please add other examples!):
*[http://www.birmingham-alive.com/ Birmingham Alive!] (UK)
**Requested in person; now on "to do" list

====Travel Industry====
any travel site is based on calender type data!
Airlines, Hotels etc.
Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings.
Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

====iCal Share====
*[http://www.icalshare.com/ iCal share]
**Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14

=== hReview ===
[[hreview|hReview]] could be used on these sites:

====Government hReview====
=====UK Gov. hReview=====
*[http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ E-petitions] (in draft, and asking for suggested improvements}
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-01 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Other hReview====
* [http://www.imdb.com/ Internet Movie Database] (IMDb) for film reviews, e.g. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049291/ The Harder They Fall ]. [[User:AndyMabbett|AndyMabbett]] 02:49, 13 Nov 2006 (PST)
**Can't find contact info! [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**See also example, below.
* [http://www.dpreview.com/ Digital Photography Review]
** Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve's Digicams]
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.librarything.com/ LibraryThing]
** e.g. [http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=trealawboy]
* [http://www.summize.com/ Summize]
* [http://www.listal.com/ Listal] for all reviews including [http://www.listal.com/reviews/books/1/books books].
** Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. [[User:DavidMead|David Mead]]

===hAtom===
[[hatom|hAtom]] could be used on these sites:

====Government hAtom====
=====UK Gov. hAtom=====
*[http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ E-petitions] (in draft, and asking for suggested improvements}
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-01 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:49, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
*** reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:07, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

====Other hAtom====
* TV Listings (see hCalendar, above)
*[http://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2006-11-13 IRC logs]
**E-mailed. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 10:29, 5 Dec 2006 (PST)
* hatom can be used to markup log files. Basically log information is a feed of events. For more details, see the [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html logging technique] discussed in on [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009038.html microformats-discuss].

=== Geo ===
Adding "[[geo|Geo]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS WikiGPS]
**Under development; notified of Geo microformat 2007-03-23
*Collections of waypoints
**See also [[geo-waypoint-examples]]
*Upcoming
**Some events, e.g. [http://upcoming.org/event/128155/ Multipack February 2007] are tagged thus: <code>geo:lat=52.4784</code>, <code>geo:lon=-1.9096</code>. This could be rendered as a geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested on (now defunct) Upcoming wiki 2007-01-14
**[http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=upcoming&fid=14362 Repeated on new suggestion board]. 2007-03-30. '''Please vote for this suggestion''' [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer U.S. Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=Birmingham&state=&zip=]
*[http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ World Gazetteer] e.g. [http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-81&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=&geo=512945809]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/places GENUKI Gazetteer] (UK & Ireland) e.g. [http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/maplink?CCC=STS,GR=SP040940,PLACE=Great%20Barr]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-20 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.confluence.org/ The Degree Confluence Project]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.wikimapia.org/ WikiMapia]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied to say they're looking into it. 2007-03-29
*[http://www.jeeep.com/details/coord/translate.cgi?datum=83&lat=52.57265&lon=-1.911433&detail=1 Jeeep.com]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Advertised address bouncing, 2007-03-27
*[http://www.flagr.com/ Flagr]
**Using, but not (yet) displaying, coordinates
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-30; also suggested they display their coordinates, and mark them up as tags [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Replied same day to say they will "talk it over internally"
* Various [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching#Geocache_listing_sites Geocache listing sites]

=== Adr ===
Adding "[[adr|Adr]]" markup to these sites would make them even more useful:
*Various postcode <--> address lookup sites
** e.g. [http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/addressfinder Royal Mail (UK)] - enter a valid postcode (e.g. "B13 9PW").

===rel-tag===
====Google as rel-tag namespace====
A Google search for 'sparrow' resolves to http://www.google.com/search?&q=sparrow, if not the unwieldy http://www.google.com/search?hs=TUz&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=sparrow&btnG=Search - likewise http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22black+redstart%22 for ' "black redstart" '. If Google can be persuaded to also accept, say, '''<nowiki>http://www.google.com/search/sparrow</nowiki>''' and '''<nowiki>http://www.google.com/search/black_redstart</nowiki>''' as being equivalent (and assuming that the latter term searches for ' "black redstart" ', with the quote marks), then Google would become a namespace for rel-tag. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 00:15, 29 Nov 2006 (PST)

=== VoteLinks ===
*[http://ma.gnolia.com Ma.gnolia]'s link rating system
**Requested: [http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Feature_Suggestions Feature Suggestions on wiki.ma.gnolia.com]

=== Multiple microformats ===
The following site(s) could benefit greatly from having multiple microformats added to their pages:
* IMDB, e.g. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413267/
** hReview for all the review data
** hCard for all the people
** tags for film/plot/other tags
** [http://tantek.com/microformats/2007/imdb-title-tt0413267uf.html title/tt0413267 with microformats] - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
***Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
** [[media-info]] microformat once there is one.

===Various===
*eBay (.com and localised versions)
** '''hCard''' - Buyer and seller address details.
** '''hCalendar''' - Auction end date/times.
** '''hReview''' - Feedback.
** '''hAtom''' - Recent purchases/ won/ lost/ watching etc.
**Requested by feedback form, 2006-12-05. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-December/007531.html eBay response of 2006-12-08]

====IT News sites====
There is obviously a great deal of publicity to be gained, by having microformats used on sites about IT developments, which are likely to be read by people in a position to have microformats used, and microformat tools implemented, in their organisations. Please add to this list!
*[http://www.theregister.co.uk/ The Register] (UK)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.ziffdavis.com/ Ziff-Davis] media sites, e.g:
**[http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ Microsoft Watch]
**[http://www.linux-watch.com/ Linux Watch]
**[http://www.extremetech.com/ Extreme Tech]
**[http://www.webbuyersguide.com/ Web Buyer's Guide]
**Requested at corporate level, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)] (issue dated December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew)
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-14. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Other high-profile IT sites====
*[http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's 'Use It'] and his [http://www.nngroup.com/ Nielsen Norman Group]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-06. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/ AtMedia2007]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-18. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Are using hCard, but will not use hCalendar, saying: "There are aspects of hCalendar that we are not happy using in this situation [...] It surrounds the use of the abbr element, particularly surrounding times in a table cell (the schedule will be slotted into a table once it is ready)." 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
* ...

====Science + Technology====
*[http://www.eurekalert.org/ Eurekalert]
**Requested via e-mail, 2007-01-20. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Miscellany====
*[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/ WikiOutdoors]
**Could use hCard, Geo, and others
**Requested, 2007-03-14
**[http://www.wikioutdoors.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=80#80 Considering] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 04:17, 15 Mar 2007 (PDT)

== Adding Microformats to Applications ==

User-agents (browsers, etc.) should support microformats natively. For instance, a user should not need to use a third party application or web service to add address details or events from a microformat-using web page to their address book or calendar programme.

===Browsers===

In addition to the following, third-party developers should be encouraged to make their relevant browser add-ons microforamt aware; or to create new add-ons with microformat capabilities.

====Firefox====
===== Firefox developments =====
*Mozilla are "brainstorming" developments for Firefox 3.0 and beyond, and have a page on microformat handling at http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Microformat_Handling

=====ReminderFox=====
*The makers of the [http://reminderfox.mozdev.org/ ReminderFox] extension have put hCalendar support on their [http://reminderfox.mozdev.org/userrequests.html ReminderFox "to do" list].

=====LinkAlert=====
*The [http://conlan89.googlepages.com/linkalert LinkAlert] extension could signal when a link is marked as a tag (likewise for other "rel" attributes). [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Requested by e-mail 2006-12-29. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**Response 2007-01-07: "Thank you for your feedback, I will consider adding [...] rel in a future update."
* We've been looking into Microformats for a while, and we are in the process of rolling out Microformats support on [http://my.opera.com/ My Opera] and [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev Opera]. Feel free to contact me with any additional suggestions of what you'd like to see. - [[User:DStorey|David Storey]]

====Opera====
* First reference to "microformats" in the [http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=169975&t=1166045417&page=1#comment1851680 Opera forums]. 2006-12-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.operamini.com/ Opera Mini] (and other browsers on telephones) could especially benefit from recognising the "tel" attributes of hCard, and allowing users to dial numbers found on-line.
**[http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=169978 Proposed on forum] 2006-12-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===Screenreaders===
*Screenreaders (e.g [http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp Jaws]) could recognise telephone number components of hCards, to differentiate them from other strings of digits. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:02, 9 Dec 2006 (PST)
** Additional to this, I believe that screen reader users would benefit from being able to recognise any of the microformats. For example, there is value in being verbally notified that a page contains "1 contact and 3 events", or being able to seek out rel attributes with help values. [[User:Phae|Frances Berriman]]

===Publishing Platforms===

====Blogger====
* Chris Messina is [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/09/02/on-open-letter-to-blogger/ advocating more support in Blogger]

====Drupal====
*There's a Drupal group for discussing/advocating/implementing [http://groups.drupal.org/microformats-in-drupal microformats in Drupal]

====MediaWiki=====
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
** See above references to Wikipedia, which runs on MediaWiki (as does this wiki)

====Plone====
*[http://plone.org/ Plone] is an Open Source Content Management System ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(content_management_system) Plone on Wikipedia]).
**See this [http://plone.org/events/sprints/past-sprints/calsprint/SprintTopics/?searchterm=microformats 2005 Plone user comment]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/5351 Plone feature request for rel-tag]
**[http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/6050 Plone feature request for microformats], submitted 2007-01-06 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

====Semantic MediaWiki=====
*[http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki]
** A semantic version of MediaWiki

== Adding Microformats to Web Services ==

===30Boxes===
*[http://30boxes.com/ 30Boxes] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:41, 14 Jan 2007 (PST)
**[http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8289#8289 Upload of hCalendars requested on 30Boxes forum] 2007-01-14

===ClearForest===
*[http://sws.clearforest.com/ ClearForest Semantic Web Services ] - uses natural language processing tools to recognise people, organisations, places, events and CVs (resumes) in web pages. Would benefit from recognising hCard, hResume, hCalendar, Geo, Adr, etc. Could also use them in its output. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 05:09, 6 Dec 2006 (PST)

===ma.gnolia===
*[http://wiki.ma.gnolia.com/Microformat_Feature_Requests Microformat Feature Requests on ma.gnolia wiki]

===Upcoming===
*[http://upcoming.org/ Upcoming] could accept a URL, parse the page for hCalendar microformats, then present a list to the user. These could be selected (via check-boxes) and uploaded. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**[http://community.upcoming.org/w/index.php/Suggestion_Box#Upload_events_from_microformatted_pages Upload of hCalendars requested on Upcoming wiki] 2007-01-14

== Successes ==

For successes on Wikipedia, see the list of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_microformats Wikipedia templates generating microformats].

=== hCard Successes ===

*Details of hCard should be added to the [http://www.imc.org/pdi/ Internet Mail Consortium's vCard page]
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-24 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**'''Success''' achieved 2006-11-25. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*W3C
**{{SuccessMarker}} '''W3C webmaster''' [http://www.w3.org/People/Jean-Gui/ Jean-Guilhem Rouel] now has an hCard. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 15:41, 4 Apr 2007 (PDT)
*{{SuccessMarker}}Wikipedia-EN - starting to roll-out
**UK Railway station template, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_New_Street Birmingham New Street station] (includes Geo)
* [http://jpgmag.com/ JPG magazine] - have sent email to their web developer with sample marked up member profile with [[hcard|hCard]] and [[xfn]] [[rel-me|rel="me"]]. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 23:48, 21 Feb 2007 (PST)
** {{SuccessMarker}} [[hcard|hCard]]+[[xfn]] [[rel-me|rel="me"]] support as of March 2007.
* Twitter.com - working on it [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST).
** {{SuccessMarker}} Completed [[hcard|hCard]]+[[xfn]]+[[hatom|hAtom]] support last week with help from Chris Messina. [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 12:01, 16 May 2007 (PDT)
* Consumating.com - working on it [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 17:44, 13 Dec 2006 (PST)
** {{SuccessMarker}} [[hcard|hCard]] profiles, [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] events as of March 2007.
* [http://sunlightlabs.com/api/ SunlightLabs API] provides profiles for US Congresspeople. Their [http://sunlightlabs.com/api/masterref/megatable.php megatable] could easily be marked up with hCard, and their APIs could return hCards and hCard fields.
** [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 12:30, 20 Apr 2007 (PDT) contacted them and requested that they add hCard to megatable, consider a GethCard API method, and potentially a GethResume API method for each person.
** {{SuccessMarker}} [[User:CarlAnderson|CarlAnderson]] 26 Apr 2007: http://sunlightlabs.com/api does now have a people.getHCard.php API method to get an hCard for every member of congress. See the documentation at http://sunlightlabs.com/api/people.getHCard.php. An example call: http://api.sunlightlabs.com/people.getHCard.php?id=fakeopenID1
** {{SuccessMarker}} [[User:CarlAnderson|CarlAnderson]] 30 Apr 2007: I created a page of hCards for every member of congress: http://sunlightlabs.com/api/hcards/index.php

=== hCalendar Successes===

*Details of hCalendar should be added to the [http://www.imc.org/pdi/ Internet Mail Consortium's vCalendar page]
**Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-24 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**'''Success''' achieved 2006-11-27. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times] (BBC, UK)
** Requested by e-mail [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
** {{SuccessMarker}} 2007-03

=== hReview successes ===
*[http://www.birderslibrary.com/ The Birder's Library]
**[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=779886#post779886 Requested]; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
** '''Success''' e.g. [http://www.birderslibrary.com/reviews/dvd/audubon_video_guide.htm Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America]. Apparently from 2007-01-18 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]

===Geo Successes===
*Wikitravel
**All articles on places, e.g. [http://wikitravel.org/en/Birmingham_%28England%29 Wikitravel guide to Birmingham, England]
**See also [http://wikitravel.org/en/Wikitravel:Microformats Wikitravel:Microformats]
**{{SuccessMarker}} achieved 2006-12-13, per [http://wikitravel.org/shared/Tech:Add_SpecialMap_using_Mapstraction_link_for_geo-tagged_pages_and_for_single_listings] see, for example, [http://wikitravel.org/en/Birmingham_%28England%29 Wikitravel guide to Birmingham, England] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66]
**Requested by e-mail, 2007-03-23 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} - over '''58,500''' waypoints geo-formatted, in under 4 hours from initial contact!
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles]
**Requested by feedback form, 2007-03-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} - over '''370,000''' examples, within 30 minutes of request being submitted!
*[http://www.addressfix.com/ AddressFix]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-26 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**{{SuccessMarker}} - valid postal addresses/ places converted, within one day of request being submitted.
*Wikipedia
**{{SuccessMarker}} Wikipedia-EN
***Articles on places, e.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr Wikipedia - Great Barr] (roll-out ongoing) 2007-03
***'''All''' map link pages linked to from the same, e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.548_N_1.932_W_ maps for Wikipedia-EN article on Great Barr] 2007-03
***See also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats WikiProject Microformats]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Wikipedia-DE
***'''All''' map link pages e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?language=de&params=52_28_47_N_1_53_51_W_type:city_region:GB maps for Wikipedia-DE article on Birmingham]
**{{SuccessMarker}} Wikipedia-NL
***'''All''' map link pages e.g. [http://www.nsesoftware.nl/wiki/maps.asp?params=52_28_47_N_1_53_51_W_type:city_region:GB&src=Birmingham_%28Engeland%29 maps for Wikipedia-NL article on Birmingham]
**{{SuccessMarker}} GIS-Wiki's "[http://www.giswiki.org/hjl_get_CoorE.htm hjl_getCoor]" now outputs Geo markup, from a Google Maps API.

==Rejections==

===hCalendar rejections===
*[http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html DTI: Bank Holidays] (not Scotland)
** Requested by e-mail, 2006-11-13 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
***Response: "At the moment we have no plans to use hCalendar or hCard coding due to unresolved concerns about accessibility issues (especially text-to-speech readers), however, we thank you for your suggestion."
***Request for clarification of concerns unanswered.

===Geo rejections===
*[http://www.geocaching.com/ geocaching.com]
**Requested via feedback form, 2007-01-27 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
**"The true benefit of this appears to be allowing sharing between sites [this] is something that GC specifically guards against so would be a major detriment. And most importantly when discussing a site or piece of software that is running smoothly, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There just does not seem to be a benefit to GC's current plans." 2007-04-02

== Comparisons With Alternative Approaches ==

=== CalDAV ===
The CalDAV protocol should not be considered an 'alternative' approach as the two are not mutually exclusive. For more information, see:
*http://ietf.osafoundation.org/caldav/
*http://trac.calendarserver.org/projects/calendarserver

====Apple Support Tickets====
* Calendar Server hCalendar input/output: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver/ticket/19
* Wiki Server hCalendar output (internal RADAR ticket [rdar://5180875/])

====Mailing List Threads====
* [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006584.html Microformats vs. CalDAV?] October 2006

=== Microsoft Exchange Server ===
Exchnage Server info to be added.

== See Also ==
* [[buttons]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[press]]
* [[spread-microformats]]

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DStorey: /* POSH Magazines */ added Opera's developer site

<h1>Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH)</h1>

Welcome to the <abbr title="Plain Old Semantic HTML">POSH</abbr> home page.

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== Origins ==

The acronym '''POSH''' was coined [http://rbach.priv.at/Microformats-IRC/2007-04-06#T091456 on 6 April 2007] on the microformats IRC channel, by <kwijibo> as a shorthand abbreviation for [[plain-old-semantic-html]]. A discussion on among John Allsopp, Tantek Çelik, Jeremy Keith, and Chris Messina at the [[events/2007-04-18-web-2-expo-dinner|Microformats Dinner 2007 April 18 following Web 2.0 Expo]] reraised the idea of POSH and the importance of promoting the broader goal of POSH, which microformats are built from and are a proper subset of. For more see [[posh#History|History]].

== Why ==

The term [[semantic-html]] is a mouthful, and belies both how simple it is, how well established it is among modern web designers, and the fact that it has benefits far beyond the obvious doing the right thing for the Web by using semantic markup. We need a simple short mnemonic term that captures the essence of the concept, and is easily verbed (to posh, poshify, poshed up).

== What ==

POSH encapsulates the best practices of using [[semantic-html|semantic HTML]] to author web pages. Semantic HTML is the subset of HTML 4.01 (or XHTML 1.0) elements and attributes that are ''[[semantic]]'' rather than ''[[presentational]]''. The best way to learn and understand POSH is to do it. Pick a page on your web site to begin with, and apply the [[posh#The_POSH_Process|POSH Checklist]] to it. Continue with the [[posh#The_POSH_Process|POSH Process]]. Read [[posh#Resources|POSH Resources]] to learn more about POSH.

== The POSH Process ==

What can you do to be POSH and to make your websites POSH?

# Publish POSH content. Read POSH [[posh#Resources|resources]] and make sure your website publishes valid [[semantic-html|semantic (X)HTML]], and uses [[semantic-class-names]] accordingly.
# Spread POSH. Encourage others to be POSH and POSHify their websites by linking to this page.
# Improve POSH. Help us gather resources to enable more people to easily POSHify their websites.

== The POSH Checklist ==

* The first rule of POSH is that you must [http://validator.w3.org validate] your POSH.
* Second, drop the use of TABLEs for purely presentational purposes, spacer GIFs, and [[presentational-html]] in general.
* Next, fix your [http://tantek.com/log/2002/10.html#L20021022t1432 Bed and Breakfast] markup.
* Eliminate [http://tantek.com/log/2002/11.html#L20021128t1352 Anorexic Anchors].
* Use good [[semantic-class-names]].
* ...

== Resources ==

=== POSH Tutorials ===

Step by step tutorials to create POSH content or upgrade existing content to POSH.

* [http://westciv.com/style_master/house/tutorials/quick/validation/index.html Validating your css and html] A simple step by step guide to how and why you should validate your markup
* [http://www.w3schools.com/ W3Schools Online Web Tutorials] has some tutorials that teach POSH concepts and techniques but you have to dig for them from the home page. '''Please add direct links to tutorials rather than just to home pages'''.
* ...

=== POSH Bookmarks ===
* Check out the Ma.gnolia [http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/posh POSH Group]

=== POSH Presentations ===
Presentations which explain and advocate concepts and techniques for utilizing semantic HTML. If/when this section gets too big, we can move it to [[posh-presentations]].
* [http://tantek.com/presentations/2003SXSW/stylesheets.html CSS: Between the Style Sheets by Tantek Çelik (2003-03)], specifically, see slides 3-4,6 starting with "Leaving the [http://tantek.com/log/2002/10.html#L20021022t1432 <B>ed & <BR>eakfast]", and slide 9 "CSS & the Semantic Spectrum" which provides an overview of the semantic spectrum of (X)HTML tags.
* [http://www.tantek.com/presentations/2004etech/realworldsemanticspres.html real world semantics] (2004-02-11)
* [http://tantek.com/presentations/20040928sdforumws/semantic-xhtml.html Semantic XHTML: Can your website be your API? - Using semantic XHTML to show what you mean] (2004-09-28)
* [http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/09/elements-of-xhtml/ The Elements of Meaningful XHTML] (2005-09-29, first version: [http://tantek.com/presentations/2005/03/elementsofxhtml/ 2005-03-13 at SXSW Interactive]).
* ...
* See also more microformats [[presentations]] in general.

=== POSH Books ===
Modern web design books which document good semantic HTML practices.
* <cite>[http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wdnut3/ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/0596009879_thumb.gif] [http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wdnut3/ Web Design in a Nutshell, <strong>Third Edition</strong>]</cite> by <span class="vcard"><span class="url fn n"><span class="given-name">Jennifer</span> <span class="additional-name">Niederst</span> <span class="family-name">Robbins</span></span> See [http://jenville.com/ Jenville].</span>
* <cite>[http://microformatique.com/book/ Microformats empowering your markup for Web 2.0]</cite> by <span class="vcard"><span class="url fn n"><span class="given-name">John</span> <span class="family-name">Allsopp</span>.</span></span> Chapter 3 is a detailed and practical overview of the appropriate use of structural, valid and semantic HTML.
* ...

=== POSH Magazines ===
Online (and off) magazines which frequently publish articles about semantic HTML. If/when this section gets too big, we can move it to [[posh-magazines]].

* [http://alistapart.com/ A List Apart: For People Making Websites] (see in particular [http://www.alistapart.com/topics/code/htmlxhtml/ HTML and XHTML Articles])
* [http://www.digital-web.com/ Digital Web Magazine]
* [http://dev.opera.com/ Dev.Opera]

=== POSH Blogs ===
Blogs that with some regularity post high quality discussions, insights, and in general have advanced the state of the art of POSH. If/when this section gets too big, we can move it to [[posh-blogs]].

* [http://dbaron.org/log/current David Baron's weblog]
* [http://zeldman.com/ Jeffrey Zeldman Presents]
* [http://meyerweb.com/ meyerweb.com - Eric Meyer]
* [http://microformatique.com/ Microformatique - John Allsopp]
* [http://simplebits.com/ SimpleBits - Dan Cederholm] (see in particular [http://simplebits.com/bits/simplequiz/ SimpleQuiz])
* [http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik]
* ...

=== POSH Blog posts ===
Blog posts that provide specific, modern, guidance, techniques and tips for using more and better semantic HTML. This list is ''incomplete''. We know there are lots more blog posts out there that fit the aforementioned description - please add them! If/when this section gets too big, we can move it to [[posh-blog-posts]].

* [http://tantek.com/log/2002/10.html#L20021022t1432 Bed and BReakfast markup (B&BR)] (2002-10-22) - avoiding nonsemantic uses of <nowiki><b>old and <br>eak</nowiki> tags and using <nowiki><h3>adings and <p>aragraphs</nowiki> instead.
* [http://tantek.com/log/2002/11.html#L20021128t1352 <nowiki><A>norexic </A>nchors</nowiki>] (2002-11-28) - use the "id" attribute on existing elements instead of adding empty <code><nowiki><a name="foo"></a></nowiki></code> elements. Use [[rel-bookmark]] for post permalinks within the document.
* [http://tantek.com/log/2002/12.html#L20021216t2238 A Touch of Class] (2002-12-16) - introduction to proper use of the HTML 'class' attribute.
* [http://tantek.com/log/2002/12.html#L20021231t1850 Dive into Semantic MARKup] (2002-12-31)
* [http://tantek.com/log/2003/01.html#L20030104t1249 Comment markup, presentation and plumbing] (2003-01-04) - how to markup a list of comments, including example use of the rare "hreflang" attribute.
* [http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/07/18/competent-classing Competent Classing by Eric Meyer] (2004-07-18)
* [http://tantek.com/log/2004/07.html#d20t2359 More about the 'class' attribute] (2004-07-20)
* [http://www.uie.com/articles/holzschlag_interview/ Web Standards in the Real World: An Interview with Molly Holzschlag] (2005-06-01)
* [http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2005/11/webpatterns_and.html Webpatterns and websemantics] (2005-11-18)
* [http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/2/writing-semantic-html Writing Semantic HTML by Jesse Skinner] (2006-02-22)
* [http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2007/1/who-will-read-your-semantic-html Who will read your Semantic HTML?] by Jesse Skinner (2007-01-04)
* [http://microformatique.com/?page_id=109 Semantics in HTML] by John Allsopp (2007-01-08 - 2007-03-12)
** [http://microformatique.com/?p=83 Part I - Traditional HTML Semantics] (2007-01-08)
** [http://microformatique.com/?p=97 Part II - standardizing vocabularies] (2007-02-20)
** [http://microformatique.com/?p=108 Part III - Towards a semantic web] (2007-03-12)
* [http://microformatique.com/?p=82 Built in HTML semantics] A list of the semantic elements and attributes of HTML by John Allsopp (2007-01-08)
* [http://tantek.com/log/2007/04.html#d20t0823 The Importance of Being POSH] by Tantek Çelik (2007-04-20)
* [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/21/getting-back-to-posh-plain-ol-semantic-html/ Getting back to POSH (Plain ol’ Semantic HTML)] by Chris Messina (2007-04-21)
* [http://friedcellcollective.net/outbreak/2007/04/22/im-posh-are-you/ I’m POSH - are you?] (2007-04-23)
* [http://www.unintentionallyblank.co.uk/2007/04/24/plain-old-semantic-html/ The Internet’s Upper Class Or Why Your Site Should Be POSH] (2007-04-24)
* ...

See [http://technorati.com/search/%22semantic%20HTML%22 more blogs talking about "semantic HTML"] and [http://technorati.com/search/posh+semantic+HTML POSH].

===Other Resources===

* [http://getSemantic.com/wiki/ Get Semantic] (wiki)
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk/podcasts/07-05-03-net.mp3 A talk about POSH] in the .Net magazine podcast episode 8 (56 minutes; 26 Mb. Relevant section 30:10-42:40)

=== POSH Bling for your Blog ===

If you want to improve your existing blog, there are some pretty simple things you can do:

==== WordPress ====

* Use the [http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/ Sandbox] or [http://getk2.com K2] themes that already support hAtom and hCard
* Add the [http://redmonk.net/archives/2007/04/18/wordpress-widget-hcard-about-box/ hCard About Widget] to your site

== Spread POSH ==

Now that you've poshified your website(s), what next? Well, help spread POSH to other websites!

* Promote POSH. Make a POSH button (perhaps using semantic HTML and CSS ;) linking to this page and put it on your site, in your blogroll, in your footer, etc. Maybe even come up with a nice POSH button graphic and share it with the microformats community with a liberal license (public domain, CC-by-3.0, MIT, etc.) Like these:
** [http://redmonk.net/archives/2007/04/25/the-new-question/ http://redmonk.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/are_you_posh.png] - [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-by-3.0]
** [http://redmonk.net/archives/2007/04/26/chic/ http://redmonk.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/chic_fancy.png] - [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-by-3.0]
* Tell a friend. Talk to web design friends about POSH and convince and help them to poshify both their personal websites, and the websites they build for others. Blog about your experience with poshification and what steps you went through to poshify your websites. Write a [[posh-testimonial]]!
* Come up with more ideas to help spread POSH. Here are a few.
** Hold a PoshPit - a one or half day marathon session mixing semantic HTML experts with folks who maintain/run web sites in general and see how many websites you can collectively upgrade to POSH during the course of the day.
** ...

== Improve POSH ==

As you read the [[posh#Resources|POSH resources]] documented here, what other POSH resources did you find? Add them to this page.

With your experience with both poshifying your sites and helping others do so, what have you learned? What kind of [[posh-issues|issues]] did you run into? What questions were commonly asked? What do you feel like you need to more easily and quickly help more people poshify their content?

== History ==

A brief history of references to "POSH" in this context and "plain old semantic HTML".

=== plain old semantic HTML ===

The earliest references to <strong>"plain old semantic HTML"</strong> that have been found so far are:
* [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design/msg/2373e9043c08cba4 1998-05-01: Kirrily 'Skud' Robert on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design] - "The site is implemented in HTML 4.0 Transitional with style sheets; this means that anyone with an older browser won't get presentational markup, just <strong>plain old semantic HTML</strong>. "
* [http://www.highrankings.com/advisor/tables-seo/ 2006-09-21 Drew's comment by on "Tables and SEO"]: "I’d say it’s well worth it for a variety of reasons to only use tables when you’re presenting tabular data, and use <strong>plain old semantic HTML</strong> to mark up your content in all other cases." (retrieved by [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 08:20, 20 Apr 2007 (PDT))
If you can find earlier references, please ''add'' them and include a brief quotation of the context of the reference to "plain old semantic HTML".